[OSM-dev] How to get offline maps of a large area in reasonable time?

[Ivo Brodien]

Hi,
> I would calculate with half the size of 13kB.
> Many tiles are only around 100 bytes.
>
> This will be around 1 to 2 weeks.

ok, then I should get started...

>>
>>>
>>>> Or are there any other ideas on how to get such a big amount of
>>>> data?
>>>
>>> See why almost no-one renders in advance every thing up to zoom 18  
>>> by
>>> reading :
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mod_tile
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_Map
>
> How is there a combination possible,
> of static generated tiles for zoom level 0 to 17,
> and using mod_tile for zoom 18?

That is not what he wanted to say. He simply wanted to say that I  
should not render everything in advance.

Cloudmade just told me that they use mapnik to render their files, but  
that their style are not available to public.

cheers
-ivo

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