Thread: [SailfishOS] [Announce] Native offline maps: OSM Scout Server
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2016-12-02 , 21:49
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Originally Posted by rinigus View Post
We can return to it a bit later. Maybe Lukas will implement it that way that it will be exposed via libosmscout anyway :-). Ideally, it would be solved on the library level and all applications using the library would benefit from it (server included).
Yep, that definitely seems like the most sensible way.

Originally Posted by rinigus View Post
I would suggest to get other issues solved first: better GUI, search, rendering, and routing come up into my mind on server side. Better routing support on the client part (voice commands?).
A significant usability issue is also IMHO the constantly changing data format - if it was more stable there could be data repositories users could use instead of having to generate their own data packs. It might be even possible to download the data directly from the GUI (from the OSM Scout Server UI or via clients).

I might be even able to arrange something with the Masaryk University NLP lab which is already kindly hosting the 100+ GB of Monav offline routing data modRana can make use of (currently mainly on the N900).

But at the moment people might even have to re-generate their data files even due to am OSM Scout Server updates due to using a newer version of libosmscout.

Does it look like there might also be a solution for this issue ? I understand designing and supporting an unchanging binary data format is no easy task for libosmscout developers.

But at the same time I'm afraid the current unstable-data format can block many users from using OSM Scout Server & client apps - especially less advanced users who could make use of pre-generated map data.

Originally Posted by rinigus View Post
Routing between maps is possible. Many have solved it with what seems to be separate data packages: OSMAnd, MAPS.ME for example. From Valhalla's docs and few test runs, it seems that they also partition internally all the maps. So, its possible, just have to work on it. Corresponding issue is https://github.com/Framstag/libosmscout/issues/57
Sounds promising!

Originally Posted by rinigus View Post
Keep them coming. Let's just hope that we can implement at least a fraction of them.
Yeah, that's always the biggest problem!
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