osmscout-server

Maps server providing tiles, geocoder, and router (by rinigus)

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  • What Are The Best Linux Apps?
    25 projects | reddit.com/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.

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