Wayne.B wrote in
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Google Earth images can be downloaded and cached.

Can you explain how to do that?



Our Linux hackers use Google Earth "tiles" as well as many other sources
for Maemo Mapper:

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

which will use any standard tiling map server and will cache as many
"last tiles" as you care to have memory full of.

Our current source of map repositories we can access has URLs listed
he

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=5209

including Google Maps various types.

Lots of interesting information is also in these posts that may interest
you.....

Maemo Mapper is just like having a GPS connected Google Earth, Virtual
Earth and other mappers....right in your pocket. It's about the finest
free program we ever got from the Linux hackers of the little NOkia N800
tablets.

A passing steward noticed my Runway Finder tracking on the little tablet
in my seat on a recent flight, with my little bluetooth GPS receiver
sitting on the window sill next to me. She must have told the copilot
about it and he came back for a look. There we were on the current
aeronautical chart flying along towards our destination.

"Can you bring that up into the cockpit?", he asked. I picked up the
tablet and GPS puck and followed him into fantasyland. We compared my
fix on Maemo Mapper to his fix on a million bucks worth of airplane to
discover they were exactly the same. The little Linux tablet flew us
right down the righthand runway upon our approach and I showed the crew
my stored "track" on the chart after the crowd departed, even plotting
an unexpected course correction due to changes in air currents over
Georgia... "Look at how smooth that turn was!", the captain who flew it
commented on my track...(c;]



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Global Warming and Creationism are to science what iPhone 4 is to
antennas...

Larry