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omapsapp
Discontinued 🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!
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kopia
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
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TileServer GL
Vector and raster maps with GL styles. Server side rendering by MapLibre GL Native. Map tile server for MapLibre GL JS, Android, iOS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GIS via WMTS, etc.
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Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack
Quite cool to see this space being explored! https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway is another related project.
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Show HN: Cardinal Maps – FOSS Android Maps App
Over the last few weeks I’ve been hard at work building a FOSS maps app for Android from the ground up based on Material 3 components and industry standard maps tooling. It has online and offline modes, and integrates well with self-hosted maps services like [Headway deployments](https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway). I’m really quite pleased with it and I hope others enjoy using it as much as I’ve enjoyed making it. I’m about 2 weeks in to development so expect some bugs. But it has most of the features you’d expect like search, directions and navigation. It’s shockingly usable already.
I’ve been yearning for something better in the FOSS maps space for a long time. I don’t think I’m the only one. I’m really hopeful that Cardinal Maps can grow into that something for myself and others.
If you’re stoked about this project I’d appreciate contributions and beta testers. There’s an obtainium link in the repo README.md if you want updates. :)
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Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
You might want to peek at https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway . I have never used it myself, but it at least shows how to integrate the different pieces.
The individual software components often have alternative with a similar scope. So if you don't like a choice headwaymaps made, browse around.
The data sources are mostly "unique", i.e. everybody downloads from the pages (Geofabrik, Who's On First, etc), so not much to gain here.
Editing styles has some alternatives, but the OpenSource editors are far away from the quality of the Mapbox editor. Maputnik or editing the 1000+ SLOC JSON by hand are the way to go, imo.
Personally I use GeoFabrik to download OSM extracts → osmconvert to extract the smaller bounding box I am interested in → tilemaker to render vector tiles to individual .pbf files I can serve like it's 1999. The bounding box extract is not necessary, but it's much faster if you need to tweak things in tilemaker. Both tilemaker and osmconvert are packaged for at least Debian out of the box, so setup is easy enough. Rendering a decently sized metro area takes < 30mins with this from scratch of compute, < 5min with the bounding box extract.
Note that adding icons (sprites) or fonts is extra work that comes on top. And while the tools themselves are great, there's still a lot of gluing/plumbing/fitting things together that you'll need to do. If headwaymaps works for you, it's probably the easiest choice.
- Google Location History-type program, but on a private server for anyone to run?
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Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
In a similar vain, there is maps.earth / headway:
https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
https://about.maps.earth/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551273
Another self hostable OSM stack that seems promising is headway
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maps.earth: Open-source maps for everyone, powered by Headway and OpenStreetMap
About: https://about.maps.earth/
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What is the easiest way to deploy OSM on the premise? like nominatim.openstreetmap.org, but offline version.
Something like this? https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
- Self-hostable maps stack, powered by OpenStreetMap
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headwaymaps/headway is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of headway is Vue.
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