[olug] Using "Google Maps" offline?

[Jon Larsen]

Have you looked at http://openstreetmap.org?


On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Jeff Hinrichs wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:08:00 -0500
> From: Jeff Hinrichs <jeffh at delasco.com>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Using "Google Maps" offline?
> 
> 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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