> If you think about it, that might be a game changer. Maybe it might make sense to ship e.g. smart phones with wikipedia, OSM and satellite photo (e.g. Sentinel-2 is free data) on disk.
I don't think this is a sensible use of local phone storage, but I do think you'll see a lot more P2P edge cache nodes if/when IPFS takes off (OSM tiles are already served on the IPFS network).
It would be a simple matter of picking a VPS provider or hardware colo provider near expected heavy use, launching IPFS, and having it pin the relevant content locally.
I don't think this is a sensible use of local phone storage, but I do think you'll see a lot more P2P edge cache nodes if/when IPFS takes off (OSM tiles are already served on the IPFS network).
It would be a simple matter of picking a VPS provider or hardware colo provider near expected heavy use, launching IPFS, and having it pin the relevant content locally.