On 4 July 2010 04:21, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many users are only interested in the local city and not too worried about > having the latest version of the map. People have used three year old > printed maps quite happily for years and for foot, public transport and > cycling a cached map on the device works fine most of the time. Render with > something like Maperitive and you don't need an Internet connection. Run it > on a tablet and you have the ideal tourist map that can show you how to get > from here to there without having a 3G data plan. > > I'm not saying its perfect for everyone but it may work for some and thus > lower the demand on the servers.
There is already plenty of tools for doing offline rendering, the point of this was to put rendering on the OSM website... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
