[olug] Using "Google Maps" offline?

[William Langford]

Not to sound trolling, but ... Go to gas station, pick up $3 map?

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On Jul 13, 2009, at 4:37 PM, John Hobbs <john at velvetcache.org> wrote:

> My only experience with something like that, where it caches the  
> tiles, is
> maemo mapper.
>
> http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper/
>
> But that's a little device specific :-/
>
> Google found something likely though: http://code.google.com/p/gmapcatcher/
>
> - John Hobbs
>
> john at velvetcache.org
>
> http://www.velvetcache.org/
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm taking the family on a vacation through the Black Hills next  
>> week.  I'd
>> like to pre-load the high-res maps from GoogleMaps (
>> http://maps.google.com/).
>> Is there a way to cache these locally so I don't have to have the  
>> live
>> connection to the Internet?
>>
>> Or is the Google Earth program the way to go?  (I'm under the  
>> impression it
>> requires Internet access too...)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> DanL
>>
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