Chris, thanks for the feedback; I'll announce a preview (in general, the feature / comparison chart, which is, in general, the backbone of my articles) of these new articles.

Ian, thanks for the feedback!

The Java app is just a tech demo showing it's possible to emulate a Web client and just dump the map files to the file system. Of course, a lot of functionality is missing and the output isn't concatenated either (I'll elaborate on the latter later, after checking out whether, for example, ImageMagick is capable of this.) As soon as I have some free time, I'll publish a full version of it, downloading all the zoomed-in images of a twon, not just 20 (the latter, however, can be very easily changed by just increasing the loop variable check in the "for" loop.)

I just wanted to know what online mapping services you would definitely welcome offline, imported into your GPS / mapping / geocaching app. I'm not really into GPS but I'm pretty good at hacking the Web (in the good meaning of the word, of course); hence I've posted this note.

Over at PPCT ( see for example http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=440758 ), I've already been told some sites that some people would like to be "offlined". Let me know if you have some other, specific sites you definitely want to see converted and I check out the feasibility of downloading the maps from inside an app.

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