[olug] Using "Google Maps" offline?

[Jeff Hinrichs]

Most rest stops, in my experience, normally have state maps available
for free.  Handy things to have. 


On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:37 -0500, John Hobbs 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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