[olug] Using "Google Maps" offline?

[John Hobbs]

My only experience with something like that, where it caches the tiles, is
maemo mapper.

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper/

But that's a little device specific :-/

Google found something likely though: http://code.google.com/p/gmapcatcher/

- John Hobbs

john at velvetcache.org

http://www.velvetcache.org/


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> I'm taking the family on a vacation through the Black Hills next week.  I'd
> like to pre-load the high-res maps from GoogleMaps (
> http://maps.google.com/).
> Is there a way to cache these locally so I don't have to have the live
> connection to the Internet?
>
> Or is the Google Earth program the way to go?  (I'm under the impression it
> requires Internet access too...)
>
> Thanks,
>
> DanL
>
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