[Qgis-user] Offline background map for large regions

[Wolfgang Meinolf]

Hi you might think about a local Maptile Server running on a VM on your PC. That's what I have for meetings, where I am offline. However for disk space reason I limited the Map to Germany and it's still very slow. The VM is internally networked with the PC so it like a local "internet" connection.


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Von: Qgis-user <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> Im Auftrag von Andreas via Qgis-user
Gesendet: Sonntag, 10. Juli 2022 10:58
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Betreff: [Qgis-user] Offline background map for large regions


Hello!

First I have to say that I'm a qgis beginner and I'm not very much into the concepts about functions and design behind QGIS, and GIS in general.
So please apologize for any strange question...


Currently I have an older core i7 with 8 GB RAM running QGIS Desktop
3.10 on Linux Mint 20.3, which I know is already obsolete but it's in the repositories of this most recent Linux Mint LTS version, and I need a stable system that does not break due to a library update etc.


I want to visualize data points, that I collect "on the road" over large distances, on the fly. So far so good everything works very fine, opening the data log file in a text layer with surveillance of log changes. Except having an offline background map for orientation. There is not always internet connection, and also it would be quite expensive to continuously download the tiles from a server over LTE.



Up to now I tried using shapefiles from geofabrik.de, but even importing a small town takes minutes.

Also the plugins for downloading xyz tiles will not work, as I need whole europe offline available in the best case, at least a whole country.

Then I imported a .osm file in a spatialite database but there are thousands of attributes I have to chose from, not knowing which ones, and also I cannot import more than a small region due to the insane time it takes.

The last thing I tried was a download of Germany vector tiles from maptiler.com, about 3,5 GB. When I drag and drop it into QGIS, it loads for hours without coming to an end, there is no information about what the software is doing (progress bar) or a button to stop the import, so I finally killed the QGIS process.

I was also looking for GeoPackage maps, as they seemed to have an index and mbtiles not (which may be what causes the described problems), but did not find any resources on the net except from a site that provides the whole planet earth (which is way too much for me).

Yesterday I tried to setup a QGIS Server to set up a WMTS service on the same machine, but I failed on finding out how to make map data available on the server (I have to provide a QGIS project file but as I already wrote, I was not even able to import a simple all-germany map).


So, finally, there must be something I'm missing or I don't understand.
If you have a smartphone or a Garmin GPS, you can easily download a map for whole germany that is about 2 GB, that can be imported in a few seconds, then accessed very performant by slow processors with tiny available memory. I also don't see why it should be necessary to go via a WMTS Server (http) to provide map data in a way QGIS can them handle with performance - how is the server getting its high performance, and why QGIS can't do it on it's own? Or can it - how??


Any hints about how I can get large area offline maps into QGIS are highly appreciated - thank you very much in advance!

Andreas







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