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[Bryan Quigley <gquigs@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can get just navit files (but only per country) here:
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/

Hope that helped,
Bryan

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Rory McCann <rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 26/11/09 09:49, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> > Open Street Map Planet file:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
> >
> > -Bryan
>
> I thought about that. However the people I'll be sending this to aren't
> that technologically advanced, so a 6GiB compressed XML file isn't very
> useful to them.
>
> I discovered a programme (navit) that can read from it's own compressed
> file format and display maps. However the latest version of it doesn't
> work with the whole OSM planet dump
> (
> http://blog.technomancy.org/2009/7/13/osm2navit-doesn-t-work-with-the-latest-osm-planet-dump
> )
>
> I've heard that to generate all the tile images for OSM takes up several
> terabytes, so that's not an option.
>
> Do you have any ideas of how to make a better offline OSM format?
>
> Rory
>
>