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Yeah this is surprising to me too. Also, you can contribute to osm if a street was missing. The complaint about having to download the map seems unreasonable
by jcul 2y ago
Yeah this is surprising to me too.
Also, you can contribute to osm if a street was missing.
The complaint about having to download the map seems unreasonable too.
It downloads the world map and then the local map and you're done. Generally the local map for an area is like 50 to 100MB from memory.
Perhaps they are in a very remote location with slow internet and no map data, but downloading the lineage ROM would be a lot slower than downloading a single map.
- tadfisher 2y agoThey should learn from Google, and package their maps so they can be streamed to clients piecemeal. I bet they spend more in data egress than compute, and PostGIS is basically made for this.
- SahAssar 2y agoThat's the default way to use OpenStreetMap, either with vector or raster tiles. I'm guessing these apps did it this way for a reason, probably to support the offline usecase and not need a separate way to do it.
- jcul 2y agoYeah I think organic maps and maps.me (the original organic maps was forked from) had the main purpose of being offline maps. Great for travelling. Also cool to check where you are on planes, on non intercontinental flights that don't have screens.