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A .NET web server that can plot the positions of aircraft on a map
http://www.virtualradarserver.co.uk/
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Use VRS offline #13

Closed begleysm closed 5 years ago

begleysm commented 5 years ago

Is there a way to use VRS offline? Having a basemap would be ideal but even mapless would be better than nothing.

vradarserver commented 5 years ago

You can use the tile server cache plugin while online to cache map tiles. The plugin should then serve cached tiles while you are offline.

https://old.reddit.com/r/virtualradarserver/comments/bzwljc/preview_installers_last_updated_on_12jun2019/

begleysm commented 5 years ago

Wow, that's a recent addition. Good timing for me. Thank you!

begleysm commented 5 years ago

For anyone stumbling across this Issue thread. I've got my Virtual Radar Server working how I want. I have offline mapping capability but instead of using the Tile Server Cache Plugin I chose to roll my own local Open Street Maps Tile Server and then have VRS point to that Tile Server for getting its background maps.

You can read my How To writeup for creating your own Open Street Maps Tile Server here https://steamforge.net/wiki/index.php/How_to_Setup_an_Open_Street_Map_Tile_Server_under_Ubuntu_18.04_in_a_Proxmox_Container

You can read my How To writeup on installing Virtual Radar Server (under Linux) and configuring it to use my local Open Street Maps Tile Server here https://steamforge.net/wiki/index.php/How_to_setup_Virtual_Radar_Server_and_pingStation_for_offline_use#Target_your_Local_OSM_Tile_Server

The major piece of info that I had trouble finding is how to add our local Tile Server to the WebAdmin Tile server drop down. The info was hard to find on Google but is located at https://github.com/vradarserver/vrs/blob/master/VirtualRadar.Localisation/Content/TileServerSettings-ReadMe.txt or locally on your machine (after installing VRS in Linux) at ~/.local/share/VirtualRadar/TileServerSettings-ReadMe.txt