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Show HN: AirMapView – An Android Library for Maps Without Google Play Services
- keehun 12y agoThis is great! I wonder if Google will prohibit access to Google Maps tiles in the future for working around Google Play requirement?
- joemccall86 12y agoI'm sure if they do the fallback implementation could just as easily be OpenStreetMap. It's really great to see this open-sourced though. It seems like it would be a common problem.
- epetzel 12y agoWe are also currently working on adding OpenStreetMap as a map provider, so that could also be the fallback instead of the web based solution.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoHow much of the world from OSM could you fit on a 128GB SD card?
- ncza 12y agoAll of it 4 times.
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- BHSPitMonkey 12y agoOffline? Wouldn't that mean you'd need a vector map data renderer handy? (Or did you mean storing OSM tiles on the device?)
- jimktrains2 12y agoThere is also OSMand that uses OpenStreetMaps and allows you to download tiles for offline access (which is wonderful if you're overseas). While I realize AirMapView is a library that you can include in your map, I wonder how difficult it would be to modify OSMand to do this, which would be able to leverage the offline maps as well
- wongarsu 12y agoNot to mention at least in Western Europe OpenStreetMap often has much better maps than any competitor. The routing isn't as good yet but that's getting better quickly.