[OSM-talk] Online/offline slippy map finished.

Sebastian Spaeth Sebastian at SSpaeth.de
Fri May 9 12:13:04 BST 2008


Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Frustrated by the lack of a nice map viewing tool for my eee pc, I have
> written my own hack. It's a local OpenLayers installation that is served
> by a python script (stock python, no additional libs). If the tile does
> not exist yet, it will be downloaded from the OSM tile server and be
> stored locally, so those tiles will be available for offline viewing.
> Tiles will be downloaded and stored in a directory called 'tiles' in the
> pyweb directory. If anybody finds it useful that is cool, otherwise I
> have just scratched my itch.

P.S. This will only work on Unix'y systems as it assumes the path
separator '/'.

P.P.S. Ctrl-C will kill the pyweb server.

Sorry, forgot to note that in the first place

spaetz




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