Storing Tiles

[Alpine]

Scott:
Sometimes I am away from Internet Access for weeks at a time when riding my ATV.
Would it be possible to store areas (images) on an external hard drive to access when on camping trips for rides?
Topos not so much, but Aerial images would be a big help. Topos contain trails that may have been there 10 years ago, but Aerials show what is there now.
Thanks,
Derrill

[ScottMorris]

Hi,

Anything that downloads and is shown in your copy of TF will be there in offline mode.  You can also pretty easily point TF to a new directory (from another computer perhaps, or on an external drive) with maps.dat files in it.  Just use the map directory setting, and restart TF.

There is a batch download tool, available in the pro version.  However it can only be enabled for the servers that allow it.  You can download the old aerials and one of the color aerial sets.

Hope that helps,

Scott

[Alpine]

I will try smaller areas to download. I was trying for the entire state of Idaho, but that did not work. The external hard drive I have is 2 TB.

Thanks

[ScottMorris]

Yeah, unfortunately no free server can really afford to let people download gigs and gigs worth of data from them -- bandwidth is not cheap/free.  So they all have throttling/blocking mechanisms to prevent it.

Smaller areas should work -- though I know it's easy to quickly find yourself drawing big boxes to download!

[m38a1guy]

I go systematically, basically drawing a box and then manually download sideways to my box end. This keeps me from over shooting my box and allows me to manually patch download by hand. Its still slower and takes up your time but open Aerial seems to be the best server now for color aerials. Doing all of Idaho in Color with all tiles would be about 120gb+ of data though. Its the .003 tiles that eat up the storage space.