New Post: MapWinGIS 4.9.3 and osm-files

Unfortunately MapWinGIS doesn't support .osm files. They also can't be directly consumed by QGis, for example, however it seems some conversion mechanism exists: http://learnosm.org/en/osm-data/osm-in-qgis/ Converted SpatialLite db described there can be accessed by MapWinGIS using OgrLayer.

MapWinGIS also allows offline use of tiles via caching. It uses SQlite database to store the cache. It's populated during normal map use or by Tiles.Prefetch method.

In case of the .osm file if it indeed stores tiles as bitmaps (and not just xml with coordinates), I guess it won't be difficult to write a script to parse the file, extract bitmaps and write them to the cache database as GDI+ bitmaps. The database is created automatically, is called mwtiles.db and by default is located in the same folder with .exe file of your app. Db structure is quite self evident (Tiles.Type is the id of provider, i.e. (int)tkTileProvider, 0 for OpenStreetMap). The path to database can be changed with Tiles.DiskCacheFilename.

BTW, we are making our policy regarding tile providers licensing stricter in version 4.9.3.2. So please check this topics: tiles, changes in version 4.9.3.

Regards,
Sergei