OsmAnd VS qmapshack

> Google maps and Waze does not allow for setting vehicle height

As a side note, OsmAnd supports setting vehicle height* and has support for multiple vehicles/routing profiles: https://osmand.net

*: and weight, width, and length

Slightly offtopic

I have OsmAnd ( https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd ) on my phone, download the basemaps, download my (small) country data (both sourced from open street maps), and with an app + ~1GB of data, I get the maps and full navigation within my country, POIs, etc., and can add other countries when needed.

Is there something similar for a PC? I can download data from open street maps, but then I need postgres, postgis, a tile server and styles and apache running just to generate the tiles. Is there anything portable (short of running osmand in an android virtualbox) for offline navigation on a linux pc? QGIS can display vectors, but I wasn't able to easily style the data... navigation is a no-go there too. anything else?

OsmAnd works for me. I am looking to get off Google, so I try to retire anything that is not on F-Droid. OsmAnd is a independent project ( osmand.net ) that uses the data you can also access under www.openstreetmap.org . The App is not perfect and sometimes it calls for the wrong action, for example when a road is just taking a steep turn it might ask for you to turn onto a different road which is actually the same every now and then. Also Google uses the location data of it's users to change routes depending on congestion afaik. Don't expect that from OsmAnd.

Organic Maps & OsmAnd~ are the classic map alternatives but i don't use them.

When I am on a flight and the flight does not provide the flight information, I am using the OsmAnd, https://osmand.net/, to monitor the flight altitude, speed and direction.

Regarding usage of OpenStreetMap over Google Maps - assuming we're talking mobile usage - you might give OSMAnd[0] a try. I've been using it exclusively on a Pixel loaded with GrapheneOS for a few months now. I would never consider going back to GMaps and I don't feel that I've lost anything either.

[0] - https://osmand.net/

OsmAnd~ (version 4.5.8): Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online OSM Maps

OSMAnd tracks users using a secret supercookie by default because the developer wants metrics. This is done without consent. The defensiveness of the developer with regards to such unethical tracking means that I will never use any software they ever release.

https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/15058

OSMand: https://osmand.net/

While there is no way to clean other people's traces up, I've made it a habit to clean up my own using https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/wiki - it comes with a few filters. I usually remove accumulations from taking a rest and recude point density to one every two meters.

A free software called Qmapshack can also open the various IMG map files to see how they're displayed along with the details included. https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/wiki

Ah yes, loading the maps from your Garmin GPS is sluggish at best. I believe at least on GPSMAP 64 series it was still USB one I believe… So i download maps I install on my laptop and plan routes only using those, then I just have to sync the trip folder to the device, which is only few kb. As an alternative to Basecamp you could try QMapShack (open source, https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/wiki). I quite like it, but there is a bit of a learning curve. I started using it with quickstart options, and online maps. The advantage is that the maps will always be up to date then.

Route planning and GPX edition on PC/Linux tablet: https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/wiki

Have a look at QMapShack: https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/wiki You can integrate lots of different maps, offline and online. And you can set it up to create routes using the BRouter engine (lots and lots of tuneable cycling routing profiles).

Gravelmaps is just data file so not OS specific. To read the file, Garmin does have BaseCamp for MacOS. It's not well supported right now. An open source application is QMapShack: https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/wiki, it supports 64 bit linux, 64 bit windows, and MacOS X > 10.12.