OSM Scout Server

Unfortunately, not yet. I have opened issues in github to address that, but there are few other things that I have to fix first. The situation is somewhat more difficult from 0.6.x releases and my priority is to simplify that part with the next release.

The map that you select in general settings, is a map for libosmscout. This map you can either download using OSM Scout application by Karry or make yourself with the importer. If you make it yourself, you can easily generate a map covering several countries. See links at https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server#maps

For the new geocoder part, few other databases are needed. I think its impractical to generate libpostal datasets (you need big server with lots of data for it). Those you have to download from links provided at TMO thread. The geocoder database is easier to make, but not trivial (you would need linux PC, installed libpostal, libosmscout, and run geocoder-nlp/importer). That's why I also generate them and distribute together with libpostal database. These databases are made usually one per country. For some countries they are relatively big, but the search speed should be OK in the latest version.

Sure! Its just that the routing instructions would have to be translated. So far, we have translations for Spanish, Swedish, and Czech. If you wish, you could translate it as well and submit the changes via github project page.

Thank you very much for your kind words! I am doing it as a hobby and its OK as it is. Its possible that we would need to start taking donations to cover expenses with distribution of the maps for libosmscout or for accessing the other servers via Poor Maps or modRana. Then the situation would possibly change.

As for now - enjoy the server and the clients :)

It seems that sometimes Jolla repos get messed up. You might need to refresh the repos. See posts on http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=97823&page=2

Note that you would have to convert maps as well. A first shot on simpler importer is given in the last post of that thread in TMO. But its not all point and click and requires Linux PC.

Thank you for using it! Indeed, import is probably the hardest thing that's left. I am looking into how to make it simpler. Until I figure out how to distribute the Import tool, keep the sources around. The maps database is evolving to cover routing functionality and you may have to run import commands again from newer version of the library in future.

Please see TMO thread. It seems that several users had the same problem and @nodevel suggested to refresh the repositories (pkcon refresh) to fix it.

This is a strange one. I don't have gmp installed on my phone at all. I am running 2.0.2 at present, but this should not cause such error. The server does depend on two additional libs, but they should not depend on gmp.

I wonder if you have a problem that is caused by something else. Maybe you could test by installing some other software from OpenRepos?

If othe rsoftware works and does not require gmp, let's try to find the offending package. For that, please install in the given order:

1. https://openrepos.net/content/rinigus/libmarisa
2. https://openrepos.net/content/rinigus/libosmscout-qt
3. OSM Scout Server, this package.

Let me know how it went, please.

Thanks! I would expect that a new version of Poor Maps would come out very soon - maybe within a week. The main problem - conversion of the maps to libosmscout supported format - would have to be faced by each user, at least for some time. If you wish, I can assist you to help with the conversion. Having such step-by-step guide may be of help for others as well. If you wish to do so, maybe we should try to do it at talk.maemo.org - its easier to read mails over there.

So, the first question - what is your platform you work on? Linux? Something else?

Thank you!

To make it work, you need:

• convert maps: maps that you downloaded from http://download.geofabrik.de/ to your PC(!) should be converted to libosmscout format. See https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server#maps for instructions and follow the links within. Its not a very simple process, but doable. Start with the smaller region and later you could extend it to larger areas. I would recommend doing it in Linux, virtual machine with Linux would be fine.
• You would need a client to access the server. I use Poor Maps. The upcoming version of Poor Maps will support the server out of the box. To use it today, you would have to follow instructions at https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server/tree/master/thirdparty/poor-maps . These are a bit outdated - just copy this folder in your device to /home/nemo/.local/share/harbour-poor-maps to get support for tiles, search, and navigation.
• To use it, start the server app, Poor Maps, and choose OSM Scout as a source for Basemaps, Search, Nearby venues, and Navigation.

As you could see, its not just a simple app install and you have to do few things in addition. But, as a result, you will get the full offline mode.