[OpenLayers-Dev] Know of any offline datasets compatible with OpenLayers?

danguyf meat_catch at p0mi.com
Wed Apr 23 10:46:37 EDT 2008




Christopher Schmidt-4 wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:07:47AM +0000, Ian Mayo wrote:
>> > Totally offline data can be easy... if it is small or your storage is
>> > big. Storing the top 7 levels of the vmap0 dataset as tiles
>> > is something like 200MB of data. Depending what you actually want to
>> do,
>> > this might be useful or not -- but I'm almost positive that it's going
>> > to be more useful than trying to actually draw the world as a vector.
>> 
>> I presume you're describing the use of a standalone mapping server to
>> support the OpenLayer instance. 
> 
> Nope. I've done it in the past (http://labs.metacarta.com/on-a-stick/)
> by pre-generating a cache using TileCache, then using the
> Layer.TileCache class to access it.  
> 

I tried out v1.0, but I don't see the cache and, when attempting to use it
offline, the tiles are all missing.  Please advise.  Thank you.


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