OSM Scout Server
OSM Scout Server is a native offline maps provider. This server can be used as a drop-in replacement for online map services providing map tiles, search, and routing. As a result, together with the map client, a full offline solution is available for map search and navigation (car, bicycle, and walking).
The server can be used to provide:
- map tiles for other applications;
- search for locations and free text search;
- search for POIs next to a reference;
- calculate the route between two or more locations.
To use the server, you have to start it and configure the client to access it. Poor Maps and modRana have support for the server already with no additional configuration needed.
NB! For SFOS <=3.0.2.x users - do not upgrade here to versions >=1.14.3. Use OBS instead: http://repo.merproject.org/obs/home:/rinigus:/maps/sailfish_3.0.2.8_armv...
Specific update instructions:
1.14.3 I suggest to uninstall old version of the server, check if anything stayed in /usr/share/harbour-osmscout-server and if that folder is there and/or not empty, remove it using devel-su. After that, install a new version (1.14.3 and up).
NB! When Mapbox GL schema is changed (as for 1.4.0), please remove Mapbox GL application caches.
NB! When a new backend is added, such as with the release of 0.9.0 and 0.10.0, please ensure that you have subscription information updated. For that, in Map Manager, click on "Check for updates", decline updates, and unsubscribe/subscribe each territory that you have subscribed. After that, proceed with the downloads. This is not needed if you don't want to use the added backend(s).
For detailed up-to-date description, please see https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server/blob/master/README.md
License: GPL
Source code: https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server
User's guide: https://rinigus.github.io/osmscout-server
Official TMO thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=97823
Donations: https://rinigus.github.io/donate
Screenshots show the running server and, as an example client application, Poor Maps accessing the map tiles and calculated route prior to navigation.
Maps are hosted by Natural Language Processing Centre (https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/en/ , Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) through modRana (http://modrana.org)
data repository.
Map data from OpenStreetMap, Open Database License 1.0. Maps are converted to a suitable format from downloaded extracts and/or using polygons as provided by Geofabrik GmbH.
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For Changelog, please see https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server/releases
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monkeyisland
Sun, 2018/01/28 - 19:12
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I have to say i also deleted the hole folder on sd card and let osm download the maps again. But no success
monkeyisland
Sun, 2018/01/28 - 19:10
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So i made a screenshot from the log:
rinigus
Sun, 2018/01/28 - 19:37
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Looks like there are problems with the huge databases like for Germany (and probably France). While it works on Linux PC, it sounds to me that its problematic for devices and I suspect that it maybe caused either by download problems or filesystem.
Please remove full Germany and download a part of it. Note that you can have multiple maps working at the same time. So, you can get full Germany downloaded by splitting it by regions. Please try with one region first and let me know if it helped.
monkeyisland
Mon, 2018/01/29 - 17:07
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So i downloaded Germany / Lower Saxony, what can i say it works. Sp for hole Germany i have to download all other territories.
Funny thing with a recent version of OSM or the maps, it worked with the hole country.
rinigus
Mon, 2018/01/29 - 23:21
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Thank you for reporting back! With such big database as Germany, probably few things can go wrong. In general, you should get very similar performance by downloading parts. The parts are stiched together by Valhalla, Mapnik, Mapbox, and Geocoder-NLP. For tile-based databases (Valhalla and Mapbox), the sizes reported by the app will be overestimated when compared to the real disk usage. This is due to the fact that neighboring datasets will use the same tiles.
monkeyisland
Mon, 2018/01/29 - 07:43
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Okay i test it in the afternoon. I report.
rinigus
Sun, 2018/01/28 - 19:09
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seems that screenshot didn't get through
monkeyisland
Sun, 2018/01/28 - 00:47
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Hi i have a Problem with OSMScout Maps on jolla 1. I choosed standard profile and downloaded yje needed files.
When i choose osmscout Maps in poor Maps. I have only a white screen. The other maps e.g. Mapnik is working fine. Can anybody help me?
rinigus
Sun, 2018/01/28 - 07:57
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Hi! More information is needed to help you. I presume that you followed the users guide and have issues after that.
Please start the server as a regular app, start Poor Maps and try to access OSM Scout Server maps. Then check out messages in the server and let me know about them. Then we can figure out what's going on.
ferlanero
Sun, 2018/01/14 - 18:53
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Yes! Another great update. Yes, yes!!
DarkTuring
Sun, 2018/01/07 - 23:20
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How do you actually start the Scout server? Why doesnt it start with application start or when it is called upon by client?
rinigus
Sun, 2018/01/07 - 23:27
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There are two ways to start:
* start OSM Scout Server as a regular SFOS application and then access it via map applications (Poor Maps, modRana, Poor Maps GL)
* enable auto-start in Settings and then just use map client
Note that we have documentation available that should get you up and running in no time at https://rinigus.github.io/osmscout-server/en/ . It includes setting up the server as well as Poor Maps and modRana.
DarkTuring
Mon, 2017/12/04 - 04:26
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I am getting an error, it cant even download the list of countries, says host unreachable.
Countries_providex.json error code 99
rinigus
Mon, 2017/12/04 - 11:59
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It should all work now. Please let me know if you still have issues.
rinigus
Mon, 2017/12/04 - 04:33
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the server providing maps is down again , unfortunately . I expect out will work tomorrow .
DarkTuring
Sun, 2018/01/07 - 23:19
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It works now!
rinigus
Sun, 2018/01/07 - 23:25
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Great. There is also redundancy in the latest version of the server allowing us to provide maps via two distribution servers. So, if the main server is down, the backup will be asked for the data - it may just take a bit longer for the first connection
naytsyrhc
Wed, 2017/11/29 - 02:24
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I always get an error: mapnik not available due to sqlite malformed disk image. Is there a way to repair? Downloaded maps freshly but still the same. Try to store maps on sd card. May that cause the error? Thx for help.
rinigus
Wed, 2017/11/29 - 07:22
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I would need a bit more info to help. In particular, there are several SQLite databases involved and I want to be sure where does the error come from. So, here are the questions:
* does it happen to any new Mapnik database or only one in particular? Try to download some small country and see if that works.
* If there is one country in particular, please let me know which. Then I can test it as well
* If it happens to any country, try to make a new directory for maps and see if it helps. You would have to redownload all maps though. There is a "master" database that keeps versions of all downloaded files and if something happened to that (never heard of it though), it could have some strange results. With the new folder, you would start a new "master" database
I am also keeping all on SD card, so that should be fine.
naytsyrhc
Wed, 2017/11/29 - 23:28
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Seems to be a problem with all databases. As the directory is totally new an all maps have been downloaded freshly, it seems to be sonething in general. Any debugging possibilities?
rinigus
Wed, 2017/11/29 - 23:52
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Its something new, haven't had this issue earlier. We can try to see your session log file:
* Go to Settings, scroll to the the end, enable "Log messages into session log file"
* Accept Settings
* Close OSM Scout Server
* Open OSM Scout Server again
* Close it again (I presume that the errors are logged)
* Copy session log file from .cache/harbour-osmscout-server/harbour-osmscout-server/session.log to somewhere (pastebin?) and send me a link
* Start OSM Scout Server and disable logging in Settings
Let's see if its also error on SD card. For that, enable "libosmscout" profile (this should have smallest files), setup a new folder on internal storage and download some smaller country. Do you get errors again?
To test maps with the smaller country, try to see this country with Poor Maps or modRana. For that, use first online basemap, navigate to country, and then switch over to OSM Scout Server basemap. It will not be as pretty as Mapnik, but should show something
naytsyrhc
Thu, 2017/11/30 - 02:28
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Thx for the response and offered help. It somehow healed itself. I removed (unsubscribed) all maps and performed a cleaning. Afterwards I resubscribed and the map was available.
rinigus
Thu, 2017/11/30 - 23:32
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Thank you very much for reporting back! Enjoy using it
naytsyrhc
Fri, 2017/12/01 - 10:10
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Thank you for providing this great tool. Another update: when.I installed a new map (that worked) that was only a part of germany. After that I again tried the whole germany map and that again causes the error. The map is quite large (9 GB) and I had two download failures and had to presume download. Maybe the error has something to do with it?
rinigus
Fri, 2017/12/01 - 11:21
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In case of full Germany, the issue could be filesystem support for files larger than 4GB. In particular, Mapnik is done via single file which is 6.7GB in this case.
There is a way around it: download Germany by parts. If you use the default profile (mapnik.geocoder-nlp/valhalla), the server will show data from all datasets "glued" together.
In a bit longer term: wait till I release Mapbox GL support for OSM Scout Server. In this new approach, the biggest tile database is below 1GB (0.5GB to be more precise) and it would suit well for getting support of larger territories. I am making good progress with it, but its not ready yet
objectifnul
Sun, 2017/11/05 - 12:34
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Is modrana.org down permanently? If so, is there an alternative?
rinigus
Sun, 2017/11/05 - 12:51
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Hi, no, its not permanently. However, since it gone down saturday night and its hosted by the research institution, we probably have to wait till monday. At present, there is no fallback server, unfortunately. I could upload to the cloud that I use, but it would probably take about 12 hours due to the partitioning of the datasets. Taking into account that modrana.org will be probably back tomorrow, I presume that its not worth it...
I will look for alternative servers to use as a fallback to make the map distribution more stable.
objectifnul
Sun, 2017/11/05 - 12:55
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Thx. By the way, congratulations for this awsome work.
ferlanero
Fri, 2017/09/01 - 01:33
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Thumbs up for new release. I'm absolute impressed with how this project is developed!
rinigus
Fri, 2017/09/01 - 09:52
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Thank you!
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