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 < 3.4. users - starting from 1.17.1 release, SFOS 3.4.0 is required for the builds published at OpenRepos. For older SFOS, please use OBS. Currently, SFOS 3.3.0 is supported in addition to SFOS 3.4.0.
OBS: https://build.merproject.org/project/show/home:rinigus:maps
Specific update instructions:
1.15.0 Valhalla database format has been updated. Please update maps after installation.
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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hwansing
Fri, 2018/04/13 - 14:37
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Hmm, permissions ....
.config/systemd/user directory is owned by root, and nemo is not allowed to create files or directories there. Maybe that's the problem?
rinigus
Fri, 2018/04/13 - 14:42
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That's surely a problem! I wonder why do you have such permissions. Change them to make owned by nemo and we are golden - all should be possible to do via the server (I mean enable/disable automatic activation )
hwansing
Fri, 2018/04/13 - 16:06
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Don't know why I have such permissions, I didn't set them by hand. They were set by the system. Nevertheless, I changed the oowner to nemo:nemo and it works fine. Thanks!
paolomi
Sat, 2018/03/24 - 12:20
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Hi :) Thanks for OSM Scout Server!
I'm translating valhalla in order to have localized routing and I want to test it before submitting it, so I ask you: have I to rebuild everything? or are there some tricks? (copy translated file somewhere?)
Thanks a lot
rinigus
Sat, 2018/03/24 - 12:34
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Paolomi, hi! Good question, I actually don't know. Note that I haven't updated Valhalla for a while and should do it soon. My main concern is that it may change database format, so I was thinking to synchronize update with new import. But when translation is ready, you should surely ping me when it gets upstream. It will be one more reason to make update.
As for testing, you could probably do it with the latest Valhalla on Linux PC or virtual machine.
paolomi
Tue, 2018/03/27 - 00:05
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Hi rinigus :) thanks for your reply.
I've updated italian translation because there is a problem with ordinal values, but they told me that "these are not meant for TTS engines anyway". I've not understood, so I'm asking them what to do. Please, have a look here:https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla/pull/1167https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla/issues/1165EDIT: it's ok, now I've understood! It should be ok in the next update. Thanks for everything :)
rinigus
Sat, 2018/03/31 - 11:03
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Hi, I have updated Valhalla router (router module) which should include your translation as well. Enjoy!
247
Mon, 2018/03/19 - 16:05
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hi there,
so i have downloaded osmscout server and prior to downloading map is downloading me some 700 mb files (eg world coast limits and so on)...what are they?why can't be avoided?it's nice we can use osmscout with poor maps but with here we go i can have voices and my region's map with only 300 mb, it is really needed to download gb's of data?
rinigus
Mon, 2018/03/19 - 16:25
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Hi. It depends on the selected profile. If you can (hardware newer than J1), I would suggest to get Mapbox GL based map client WhoGo Maps. The initial download will be smaller for that. These data are world coastlines and address parser data (addresses can be parsed in almost any language).
247
Mon, 2018/03/19 - 16:49
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Hi,
I am on j1 and whogo seems to work on that, i have in fact downloaded osmscout to try whogo, since description says that osmscout was needed for offline navigation...anyway i'll take your answer as a no :)
rinigus
Tue, 2018/03/20 - 08:13
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Take it as a no for now. The download that you are talking about is coming from language parser. There is a new version of the parser available which may reduce this part. However, I didn't manage to work on it yet.
eatdirt
Wed, 2018/03/14 - 16:06
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Hi there,
everything works fine for me, sdcard formatted ext4, but since the last update, I cannot subscribe anymore to "France" as a whole. In the directory listing, I can only see the regions, but no link to get the whole country. Under "Italy", this seems ok, I can get the whole, so it seems to be some server related mising links?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Chris.
rinigus
Wed, 2018/03/14 - 16:51
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Hi Chris,
I dropped full France and Germany imports. For feedback I asked in the official TMO thread (https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1540773&postcount=422) and since there was no general protest, decided to drop it. This makes it faster on my side (less huge imports), reduces double data on the servers (full country + regions). I took 4GB as a border and only these countries were affected.
Please download the regions and they should be automatically available as a joint entry from user's perspective (backends Mapbox GL, Mapnik, Geocoder-NLP, Valhalla). While you will see that reported sum is larger than before, the end space usage should be either the same or at least very similar.
Cheers,
Rinigus
eatdirt
Fri, 2018/03/16 - 15:46
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Arf!
I have tried that before, but on Poor Maps, I was only getting one region at a time and not the whole country. I think that is because I am still using "libosmscout" as a rendering. I'll certainly switch to Mapnik then, but from past experience, "libosmscout" was providing the fastest rendering on Jolla 1. Any chance to make it compatible with region boundaries?
Thanks again for the great app!
Cheers,
Chris.
rinigus
Fri, 2018/03/16 - 20:31
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Yes, libosmscout backend doesn't support merging in the server. The newer versions of the library do support it, but the version used in the server does not. I have asked for someone to maintain libosmscout backend on it's developers list, but so far, there has been no volunteers. I personally use MapboxGL backend or, sometimes, Mapnik, hence interest on my part is limited and it would be better maintained by someone actively using it.
hwansing
Sun, 2018/02/18 - 09:56
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Hi, this app is really amazing, thanks! I had (apparently) the same problems as monkeyisland, the same error messages regarding "database image malformed". I tried to download hole Germany in one database, and that resulted in a 4,3GB big file - lying on a vfat filesystem (sdcard). However vfat is limited to 4GB file size :-)) So you need to format the sdcard as ext4, for example. Regards Holger
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.
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