![]() Its source-tree includes a tool to convert Mediawiki dumps offline for easy parsing on the iPod. Encyclopodia is a Linux-based package which runs on 1st through 4th generation Apple iPods. Plain text, no images, though includes links. Several free (as in speech) servers and clients available. It understands TWiki flavor of Wiki syntax. This is PalmOS version of Wiki browser/editor. It also has software included for generating new Plucker pages, which might be useful for Wikitravel. This has some nice features, including better support of images. There are 2 different versions of the Wikipedia database available - with images and without. WikiTravel will be a much smaller database, though. There's already been some work to make Wikipedia available in TomeRaider format, but it's the entire database and adds up to close to one gigabyte of data. Does images and hyperlinks, widely supported by Web content providers. These are native plain-text files for Palm devices - no images or hyperlinks. Most define their own file format, although some can read plain text files and HTML files. There are a few main off-line readers for PDAs. To define the desired user interface for obtaining and using Wikitravel articles.To define one or more target formats for off-line reading.There is also a dump available on the website as well as the source code used to retrieve the dumps. Since there are no database dumps available yet you might try to use httrack to download all pages.Īn unofficial dump (Mar 2010, 39MB) in raw XML format, as output by MediaWiki, can be used with several of the products listed below. Being able to navigate through a number of articles with a hand-held device could make it a lot easier to get around.ĭatabase dump containing content from all pages. This could be very useful for some travellers. It's possible, however, to have electronic files that you can read on a computer or a PDA even when you aren't connected to the Internet. Wikitravel has two main target media: online use over the World Wide Web, and offline use in hardcopy (paper) form. iPhone and iPod Touch users with a jailbroken device can install an English Wikitravel dump (Mar 2010, 39MB) in wiki2touch for full offline access.The open-source OxygenGuide offline reader works on Androids, Kindles, laptops, and other devices.The free Android app My Tourist Guide lets you easily download pages from Wikitravel and also has a "text to speech" feature.The iPhone/iPod Touch apps Offline Wikitravel ($7.99), MapsWithMe (free), and PocketEarth Maps & Guides ($4.99) provide complete snapshots of Wikitravel, the latter two also includes offline maps.Guides are machine-generated compilations from Wikitravel, World66, Wikipedia, Open Street Maps, TouristEye, Dmoz, Chefmoz and photos from Flickr. ![]() Triposo, free Android/iOS app allows to download guides for offline use. ![]()
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