osmscout-server VS pure-maps

Pure Maps with OSM Scout Server for offline mapping and geolocation

- build a minimal web page showing a Leaflet or a MapLibre widget, connected to a backend built using a compiled language like C++ or D, itself connecting to OSM Scout Server to provide the tiles. Or to OSM Scout Server directly if it is possible.

The last option is probably the most lightweight solution, provided you probably have a browser already running on your phone. I'm not saying this out of my ass by the way, I'm building an SMS app using Svelte for the user interface and D for the backend connecting to the modem and managing the SQLite database. It's way faster than chatty.

[1] https://openrepos.net/content/rinigus/pure-maps

[2] https://rinigus.github.io/osmscout-server/

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

I am assuming this is talking about Android, but for Mobile Linux, Pure Maps has been awesome: https://rinigus.github.io/pure-maps/

I have been successfully using it for over four months now for both car an bike navigation.

Pure Maps with OSM Scout Server for offline mapping and geolocation

Pure Maps (map/navigation app) -- works, but lacks some features.

Thanks. I opened an issue and it seems to be a bug.

OSMAND (like any Android app) is unlikely to be ported, but we have PureMaps, which is quite solid: https://github.com/rinigus/pure-maps, and GNOME Maps has been improving lately, too.

Ok, this one I'll agree with for the most part. Well, not to the same extent but whatever. Gotta say though, the Sailfish and Plasma Mobile communities have been cross-pollinating tech quite a bit lately; Sailfish Connect is based on KDE Connect, while Pure Maps was ported to Kirigami (and UUI for Lomiri). Yes, many of the mobile Linux projects have historically been rather isolated from each other. However, this is an area which the Qt-based ones have been getting better at rectifying for a while now. Hopefully this continued cross-pollination continues, as the entire mobile Linux ecosystem will be all the better for it.

For navigation there's Pure Maps: https://github.com/rinigus/pure-maps