[OSM-newbies] Using osm offline?

[john whelan]

Save the .osm fie to the hard disk then use Maperitive.  If its small
enough you maybe able to use JOSM to grab and save the file, but I
think it will be too large.

Routing is more difficult.

Cheerio John

On 31 August 2010 06:26, My Forwik <myforwik at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to use OSM offline on a huge road trip I am going to take. I
> would like to be able to:
> -view map at all zoom levels
> -search based on street name / location
> -display POI's in the area
> -a routing engine would be nice too.
>
> The area I will need the map off is about 4,000km by 2,000km.
>
> I have been scrapping the tiles and using the earth.osm xml to search for
> names, all viewed in a web broswer using a little javascript, but I'd rather
> not reinvent the wheel.
>
> Its all abit overwhelming as to where to start due to the number of tools
> and programs. What sort of setup would you recommend?
>
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