[OSM-newbies] Using osm offline?

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:26 AM, 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
[ ... ]
> I have been scrapping the tiles

Hi My Forwik,

The combination above, of "huge road trip", "all zoom levels" and
"scraping tiles"is a potential problem as that can affect the
resources available for other OpenStreetMap contributors.  Please
don't scrape large areas of tiles in high zooms.[1]

If you don't have to have a browser, consider Maperitive, or Gosmore
as recommended in this thread, or have a look at some other software
choices and see what appeals to you.[2]

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Desktop