virtual earth: getting my whole city cached

knubile · 01-14-2007, 12:04 AM

Any ideas on what the best way to go about this would be? Is there some way to do this without hanging out in my car and browsing everywhere?

Also, is it just me or does it eventually lose some of the cached images? If it does, is there a way to stop it?
Does it cache separate images for each zoom level? I can't tell if it just resized the same block or not.
I would love to have it all cached. Don't really care about the drive space.
I'm not online all the time. Only in my driveway, so caching my city would be awesome.

Any thoughts?

P3D4T0R · 01-14-2007, 12:15 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by knubile

Any ideas on what the best way to go about this would be? Is there some way to do this without hanging out in my car and browsing everywhere?

Also, is it just me or does it eventually lose some of the cached images? If it does, is there a way to stop it?
Does it cache separate images for each zoom level? I can't tell if it just resized the same block or not.
I would love to have it all cached. Don't really care about the drive space.
I'm not online all the time. Only in my driveway, so caching my city would be awesome.

Any thoughts?

Or even caching some some off rode trails

knubile · 01-14-2007, 06:51 AM

Ideally, Streetdeck would cache everywhere I've been. I wouldn't mind it if it would track everywhere I've been, then when I feel like it I'll let it sit in the driveway for 20 minutes downloading all the images for my past paths.
I bet that's outside the scope of digitalmods though.
That would have to be built right in. Would it Chuck?

god_of_cpu · 01-14-2007, 12:03 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by knubile

Ideally, Streetdeck would cache everywhere I've been. I wouldn't mind it if it would track everywhere I've been, then when I feel like it I'll let it sit in the driveway for 20 minutes downloading all the images for my past paths.
I bet that's outside the scope of digitalmods though.
That would have to be built right in. Would it Chuck?

StreetDeck will never delete any virtual earth images.

Theres nothing stopping you from making a digitalmod that does this. There is an event on the navigation object that is fired everytime a new lat and long is received and there is another post in this forum with some links in it to code that tells you how to convert the lat and long to the virtual earth tile it belongs in. If you just download the tile images to the proper place in My Documents\StreetDeck\Virtual Earth. StreetDeck will use them as soon as they become available and are needed.

Caelric · 01-17-2007, 12:01 PM

How would I go about d/l'ing all the images for my area without actually driving around?

Basically, I'd like to use the Virtual Earth function, but I don't currently have an active internet connection when I drive.

Dave

netchris · 01-17-2007, 05:15 PM

I wonder how big all of the images for NA would be..

god_of_cpu · 01-17-2007, 05:41 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by netchris

I wonder how big all of the images for NA would be..

Its estimated at around 18 Terrabytes for all zoom levels.

Naamanf · 01-17-2007, 06:55 PM

Good thing I just bought those new hard drives.

Outsider787 · 01-18-2007, 06:51 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by god_of_cpu

Its estimated at around 18 Terrabytes for all zoom levels.

Yikes!
I can just see someone who REALLY wants all the zoom levels available in their car, with a trunk full of HDs... (that would be 36 500gig drives. well 37 to have a RAID 5 array)

parksgm · 01-18-2007, 08:22 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Outsider787

Yikes!
I can just see someone who REALLY wants all the zoom levels available in their car, with a trunk full of HDs... (that would be 36 500gig drives. well 37 to have a RAID 5 array)

To me, it's still amazing it's possible with *only* 37 drives...while it would be unwieldly, expensive, and difficult to power, such an array is certainly feasible.

I remember thinking the 160MB drive in my Mac Performa 475 (33mhz 68040 with 8MB of RAM!) was big in 1992!

Naamanf · 01-18-2007, 09:20 AM

Give it two years and you will be able to hold it all on one drive or disc.

strohj · 01-18-2007, 09:29 AM

2 years or so from now the detail level would have increased 10 fold.. and therefore the size requirements..

Naamanf · 01-18-2007, 09:31 AM

Doubt it. The man doesn't want us to have anything that good

debugger · 01-24-2007, 03:57 AM

It would be a lot easier to invest into an EVDO card or something...

sharpmat007 · 01-24-2007, 08:18 AM

Im using verizon data card and it pulls the images in fine. With Cingular now offering 3g and Sprint going WiMax by the end of the year a lot more of us will have the ability to get wireless in the car by tethering their phones. The advantage of having a data card is that its independent of your phone and I share the internet connection through an ad-hoc wireless g so anyone with a laptop can get on the net.