[OSM-talk] Download Tiles

[Shaun McDonald]

On 29 Oct 2009, at 18:28, bernhard wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Is there an easy way to download "all" Tiles?

No, but you can generate them yourself:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik
Laptops are capable of rendering tiles live locally.

It's not just some GigaBytes, rather tens of TerraBytes.

> I'm sure to have all mapnic tiles on my netbook I need some GByte -  
> but
> that's not a big Problem.
>
> Is there a zip-file with all tiles somewhere?
>

No and for very good reasons.
Not all tiles have been rendered, you don't really need all of them.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiles

Shaun