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! Updates are currently posted at Chum repositories only.
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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geher
Wed, 2018/08/15 - 08:24
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Profile for raster tiles selected. All data loaded. Perhaps the problem is on the side of modrana.
rinigus
Wed, 2018/08/15 - 08:46
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Second test: try to ensure that you are in the part of the world where you have data. Zoom out for a while and/or set up region with online map. After that, switch back to osm scout server map.
Out of curiosity: is there particular reason for using raster tile clients?
geher
Wed, 2018/08/15 - 13:45
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WhoGo Maps and Poor Maps works good.
But modrana has track recording function.
rinigus
Wed, 2018/08/15 - 14:30
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Sounds like its misconfiguration of modRana. On my device modrana works as well. For tracking, you may consider sports app. There is one which uses vector tiles as well
olf
Thu, 2018/08/23 - 15:48
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@geher, i.e.: https://openrepos.net/content/jdrescher/laufhelden
rinigus
Wed, 2018/08/15 - 08:34
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Can you try to see with Poor Maps? Its also using raster tiles and then we can see whether its modRana or the server issue.
geher
Wed, 2018/08/15 - 13:44
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Poor Maps with raster profile works normally.
geher
Wed, 2018/08/15 - 08:19
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Modrana does not working correctly with OSM Scout Server. Log of Servet say about normal requests. But modrana display map as white squares.
lsjmhar
Tue, 2018/07/17 - 14:51
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Hi. I have downloaded maps and modrana. When i follow the instructions and select osm scout server no tiles appear on my map. If i pick other map options they work. Any ideas?
rinigus
Tue, 2018/07/17 - 15:05
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If you use modRana, you have to set the profile to include raster tiles. For vector tiles, the ones I presume you have by default, you could use WhoGo Maps. They also work with Laufhelden. Note that the vector tile clients are much faster in rendering and have several other features that you may like.
PS: modRana is expected to support vector tiles in future.
lsjmhar
Tue, 2018/07/17 - 15:57
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Thanks. I selected that in osm but map still not appearing in modrana.
rinigus
Tue, 2018/07/17 - 16:10
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Please note that the documentation is somewhat outdated. I have opened an issue to address it and it will be a bit easier in future. But let's figure out what's wrong with your setup
rinigus
Tue, 2018/07/17 - 16:04
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To troubleshoot modRana: After you selected support for raster tiles in the server, did you download the maps? Does OSM Scout Server log say anything?
To test my assumption regarding vector tiles: Have you tried WhoGo Maps? Did it work with that?
crakby
Mon, 2018/06/18 - 14:10
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Ok. yes thank you for the hint. Where to go, if I found a wrong alias in German language for a tag?
rinigus
Mon, 2018/06/18 - 14:37
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We are planning to merge the tag aliases lists with the map clients. POC for WhoGo Maps is ready, have to polish it and do something similar for modRana. So, in future, you wouldn't have to know the tags before hand...
As for correction: German is at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Special_Phrases/DE
List of all available languages is at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Special_Phrases
crakby
Mon, 2018/06/18 - 00:34
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In the 'near by search' I have no matches anymore, since last update, if I searching for type 'caravan_site'. In the last version this type showed up.
rinigus
Mon, 2018/06/18 - 06:59
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Its easier now: please use 'caravan site' (or if you want to specify full tag, tourism_caravan_site). Full list of tags and their aliases is at https://rinigus.github.io/osmscout-server/tags/
hwansing
Wed, 2018/04/11 - 23:29
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I have problems with the automatic start of the server as a service: I have tried to enable "Automatic activation", but there are no systemd socket and service files created (.config/systemd/user/osmscout-server.service and .config/systemd/user/osmscout-server.socket). I have version 1.5.0-10.32.1.jolla at a Jolla 1 phone.
rinigus
Thu, 2018/04/12 - 06:56
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Strange, I cannot reproduce it - files are created if needed, activation works. This is on onyx 2.1.4.14. Try to run from terminal and see if there is something printed that can help to debug it
hwansing
Thu, 2018/04/12 - 19:20
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Starting from terminal gives:
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[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ harbour-osmscout-server
[D] unknown:0 - Using Wayland-EGL
[D] unknown:0 - "Unexpected reply signature: got \"\", expected \"a{sv}\""
[W] unknown:38 - file:///usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Silica/private/Util.js:38: TypeError: Cannot read property 'parent' of null
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I hope this helps...
If not: Could you mail me the contents of the systemd socket and service files, so that I can create the files by myself?
rinigus
Fri, 2018/04/13 - 09:34
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These are general error messages that seem to be coming from Silica layer. So, no help.
The contents of files is available at https://gist.github.com/rinigus/b9fe24551ba8f8e590d94a45761f4a54
With the files in place, it should be possible to enable/disable from OSM Scout Server. If that doesn't work either, then you would have to give corresponding systemctl --user command to enable the socket
However, its realy strange that you have this issue. Maybe something is wrong with permissions?
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).
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