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by thinkingemote 2804 days ago
Cartography: get the osm rendering stack on your laptop and a bit of data, then map away!

Programming: get the documentation first, manuals API reference, tutorials, and use a language that doesn't have much "now install this library" dependencies.
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cedricium 2804 days ago
> get the documentation first, manuals API reference

DevDocs[0] (offline collection of API docs) is perfect for this.

[0]: https://devdocs.io/

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jitl 2804 days ago
I travelled to China recently and was unpleasantly surprised to find the HTML/CSS/DOM docs totally unusable offline, even though I “downloaded” them in my user preferences before leaving.
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jimktrains2 2804 days ago
Qgis is a good, f/oss desktop gis system.
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