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ModRana is a flexible GPS navigation system for mobile devices. This is the main upstream modRana source code repository - waiting for your pull requests & patches! :)
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allow to pre download tiles for selected regions like country, state, city #101

Open mschaaf opened 9 years ago

mschaaf commented 9 years ago

It would be nice if modrana would allow me to download complete maps/tiles for a country in advanced. This would allow me to download all the tiles for a country i want to travel to at my home network.

M4rtinK commented 9 years ago

It would be nice if modrana would allow me to download complete maps/tiles for a >country in advanced.

ModRana already supports batch downloading map tiles, it is just not yet supported by the Qt 5 GUI used on Sailfish and Android. BTW, the "classic" GTK GUI used on the N900 and on desktop can already do that.

This would allow me to download all the tiles for a country i want to travel to at my home network. Yep, that's the idea - I'll just note that if the given country is rendered in high level of detail it might not be possible to really download all the tiles for the country as that would comprise hundreds of thousands or even millions of tiles massing many GBs. Basically every additional layer of detail exponentially increases the amount of tiles.

Still you can usually quite easily download all the "upper" tile layers for a country or all tiles for a reasonably sized city, so batch downloading is indeed useful. :)