osmscout-server VS gImageReader

Compare osmscout-server vs gImageReader and see what are their differences.

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osmscout-server gImageReader
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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osmscout-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of osmscout-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-05.
  • What Are The Best Linux Apps?
    25 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 5 Jan 2022
    Pure Maps with OSM Scout Server for offline mapping and geolocation
  • Why Openstreetmap as a product fails to compete with Google Maps – part 1/3
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2021
    There are on device or even in browser renderers that only need remote or locally stored vector data to render the map. This moves the burde of rendering to user devices that should be more than capable for this today (especially if you use a GPU renderer) and makes you server into just a dumb data pipe that should be able to scale much better & more cheaply.

    One such renderer available via Qt/QML:

    https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/location-plugin-mapboxgl.html

    Alternatively you can have a local daemon running that does the tile rendering on your device from offline data packs. This way even "legacy" apps requiring simple bitmap tiles will work without (major) changes. One such project providing this (among other APIs) is OSM Scout Server:

    https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server

    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2021
    There is the OSM Scout Server project, that makes it possible to download various OSM based data packs for offline use:

    https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server

    Then it provides various services (routing, PoI search, geocoding, etc.) over this data set to all applications running locally on your machine. It targets mainly various mobile Linux distros but works perfectly fine on desktop as well and is available in flatpak form.

    Like this all navigation and mapping can share the same data set and no potentially sensitive location related metadata is leaked to a remote server other than what data packs have been initially downloaded.

    Also the community run infrastructure just needs to be able to store and store and distribute the ~150 GB of data packs covering Earth but does not need to have any extensive compute and memory requirements to handle lots expensive of individual API queries.

gImageReader

Posts with mentions or reviews of gImageReader. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing osmscout-server and gImageReader you can also consider the following projects:

PaddleOCR - Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices)

tesseract - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

openstreetmap-tile-server - Docker file for a minimal effort OpenStreetMap tile server

pure-maps - Maps and navigation

docker-teedy - Multi-architecture Dockerfile for Teedy (formerly Sismics Docs)

vtm - OpenGL vector map library - running on Android, iOS, Desktop and browser.

OpenArdenneMap - Une carte pour l'Ardenne

hypnotix - An M3U IPTV Player

percollate - A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.

osmin - GPS Navigator On-Road/Off-Road for Android and Linux devices

eraser-map - Privacy-focused mapping application for Android