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[Rory McCann <rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh I forgot about that. I'm downloading that at the moment.

I went to the Navit wiki
(http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OpenStreetMaps#Pre-processed_OSM_Navit_Maps)
and they have a navit file (2.9GB) for the whole OSM planet file (i.e.
the thing I tried to generated, but failed). :) That'll do the job.


On 30/11/09 09:57, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> 
>

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