OSM Scout

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Submitted by Karry on Tue, 2024/12/10 - 23:24
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OSM Scout for Sailfish is map viewer with search and navigation, fully functional without internet connection.

You can choose one from multiple map styles: standard, outdoor, public transport or winter sports. All with the same database that can be downloaded (per state) directly from the application for offline usage. Data on the server covers whole planet and are updated monthly from OpenStreetMap data. You can generate your own extract eventually, all tools are open-source and OpenStreetMap data are free!

For better outdoor experience, databases (almost all) contains elevation contours and hillshade overlay (online) can be displayed. For areas not covered by offline data are used online maps provided by OpenStreetMap or Stamen Design. But search and navigation works only with offline data.

Your favourite places (waypoints) can be stored to collections and exported to GPX files later. It is even possible to import tracks and waypoints from GPX files, display it on map or show simple statistics.

OSM Scout for Sailfish OS is developed as open-source (GitHub) by volunteers in their free time. You can help to improve this application by reporting bugs, creating translations or developing new features. Any help is welcome.

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Application versions: 
AttachmentSizeDate
File harbour-osmscout-2.35-1.i486.rpm2.47 MB19/09/2024 - 01:54
File harbour-osmscout-2.35-1.armv7hl.rpm2.25 MB19/09/2024 - 01:54
File harbour-osmscout-2.35-1.aarch64.rpm2.31 MB19/09/2024 - 01:54
File harbour-osmscout-2.36-1.aarch64.rpm2.32 MB10/12/2024 - 23:24
File harbour-osmscout-2.36-1.armv7hl.rpm2.27 MB10/12/2024 - 23:24
File harbour-osmscout-2.36-1.i486.rpm2.49 MB10/12/2024 - 23:24
Changelog: 
* 2024-12-10 Lukáš Karas  2.36
- improve route lanes suggestions
- hide lane suggestions when navigation ends
- better support for HiDPI displays
- optimize rendering: upload tile to GPU without additional conversion
- improve memory management, reduce kills by low-memory-killer:
  -- watch system memory and reduce cache TTL when there is not enough free/reclaimable memory.
     Not use MCE memory level API anymore.
  -- flush also cache of rendered and online map tiles, not just data cache,
     when memory in under pressure

Full changelog on Github

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Karry

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 18:50

Thanks for that words. I really enjoy this work. It would not be possible without other osmscout (library) developers: Tim, Rinigus, Vladimir...

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atlochowski

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 01:41

Hi Karry,
I like maps downloader but I would like to say map of Poland which you generated it's not fully functional. You can search for cities, districts but not for streets.

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Karry

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 09:58

Hi. We know about this limitation. OSM Scout library builds tree index from regions (towns) -> locations (streets, villages) -> addresses. When you search, it fails to find just a streets, like "Koněvova" in Prague, but when you use "Koněvova, Praha" it will show you correct result. You can even to specify street numbers "Koněvova 100, Praha". Rinigus starts experimenting with libpostal (thread), system requirements looks scary, but it may improve search capability at the end...

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paolomi

Tue, 2017/01/03 - 13:47

Hi Karry, thanks for this useful app! :) My feature request is to improve UI search, in this way:

Street:  ___________________ (space to insert the name of the street)

City: _____________________ (space to insert the name of the city)

in this way everybody can do search correctly. Many thanks :-)

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atlochowski

Tue, 2016/12/20 - 14:05

Thanks, it's working.

I tried to search like this but I forgot about capital letters at the begining of words. Without capital letters you can find nothig.

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Karry

Tue, 2016/12/20 - 16:07

Yes, case sensitivity is another search related thing in search that we should solve...

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atlochowski

Sat, 2016/12/17 - 19:07

How to activate Polish language?
After update to 0.13-1 nothing change, still english interface.

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Karry

Sat, 2016/12/17 - 23:03

Ups. I realized that I don't put Your translations to the build. See this commit https://github.com/Karry/osmscout-sailfish/commit/e7fd11be0f2b3598d2cb11...

Sorry for that, I will release 0.14 soon. Here is snapshot with fixed Polish : https://osmscout.karry.cz/harbour-osmscout-0.14-1.armv7hl.rpm

Btw, can you update Polish translation for map downloader page please?

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atlochowski

Mon, 2016/12/19 - 00:32

Done

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rinigus

Sat, 2016/12/17 - 15:16

Hi @Karry,

great work with the downloader! Very slick and works as expected!

rinigus

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Karry

Sat, 2016/12/17 - 17:15

Thanks :-) There will be always something that is missing to me (updating of existing map, restore interrupted download...), but It does its job. Btw, do you want to integrate it to the server?

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rinigus

Sun, 2016/12/18 - 00:17

Maybe I should, but after some time. I am working on search results right now and don't have time for adding download manager yet.

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hoodlum

Wed, 2016/10/12 - 21:04

GitHub?

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Karry

Sun, 2016/10/16 - 18:26

You can find source code on github, of course: http://github.com/Karry/osmscout-sailfish . I forgot to add link to description.

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Karry

Sun, 2016/10/02 - 18:44

Hi Miklos. The reason why here is available newer version is that every submit to Jolla Harbour have to be verified by Jolla QA team. And this process tooks one (working) day usual... I started to use OpenRepos too because I got message that Jolla Harbour is not available on devices that are not supported by Jolla officially.

I can't say that one channel is primary. I want to use Jolla Harbour for officially supported devices, OpenRepos for other Jolla devices and GitHub for everyone who want to contribute...

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martonmiklos

Mon, 2016/10/03 - 19:06

I see, thanks Karry!

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martonmiklos

Sun, 2016/10/02 - 15:27

Hi Karry,

I have just seen that the OSM Scout is available here too, an I have seen that a newer version is available here than the Habour one. Which distribution channel will be the primary one?

Also I would recommend you to upload the icon to here too.

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