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...

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