Offline Openstreetmap
Taking Openstreetmap offline is helpful if you can't connect to the Web for, right now there are several tools available that help you do that. Since Openstreetmap data has so many uses you are never going to find one tools that does everything for you so you might have to use more than one tool.
See the list of available software or other possibilities of using OSM.
The time you are offline is also important, will you be offline for weeks, will you continously download updates?
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View the map offline
You can download images from the web site, there are tools for this e.g. Export tab from the web map, Tangogps (Linux). You can also you applications that will use the Openstreetmap data in useful ways like Gosmore or Navit, see more in next section.
Rendering data yourself
The web map is rendered by Mapnik or Osmarender, these can be installed on your system to allow you to render maps your way. Osmarender can be used directly in a browser which will be slow, installing mapnik is very possible even with little knowledge about the tools you need to install. There are a few more rendering solutions that can work offline, see Rendering.
Using the data offline
You can use Openstreetmap for lots of things, but Routing is the most important one. There is two tools for this Navit and Gosmore. You can download Openstreetmap maps packs for navit which were prepared by CloudMade.
For caching tiles on your computer and then be able to browse the map offline, you can also use:
Also have a look at
Edit offline
You can use editors, JOSM and Merkaator to do that. But you can use these to edit the planet.osm, so you will have to get the data yourself in some way.
