[OSM-dev] downloading partial tilesets to serve locally]

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    in addition to what has already been said, Jozef Vince pointed me at 
a Perl script that he has written to download tiles from a tile server.

With his permission, I have commited this script to our SVN at: 
svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/tileDownloader

Thank you Jozef!

Below is Jozef's E-Mail explaining how it works.

Bye
Frederik

-------- Original Message --------
From: Jozef Vince (freemap.sk) <jozef.vince at freemap.sk>
To: 'Frederik Ramm' <frederik at remote.org>

[...]

In demo.conf
You can see some settings - I think they are self explanatory but in short:

X=2244  / coords of left upper tile
Y=1417
Zoom=12 / start zoom
Zoom2=16 / end zoom
W=2 / width of area in titles on start zoom
H=2 / height
R=230 / tile background RGB  - in case of combining multiple transparent
tilesets
G=230
B=230
Layers=relief,topo,tiles,trails,names   // list of layers one or more
Layer.relief.URL=http://www.freemaps.sk/relief/%d/%d/%d.jpg
Layer.relief.type=jpg

// for every layer you should specify the URL and type  - jpg or png

Then you just have to run

perl tileDownloader2.pl conf demo.conf

tiles will be downloaded from specified layers, combined into one and saved
into path ./data/z/x/y.png