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I have OsmAnd ( https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd ) on my phone, download the basemaps, download my (small) country data (both sourced from open street maps), and with an app + ~1GB of data, I get the maps and full navigation within my country, POIs, etc., and can add other countries when needed.

Is there something similar for a PC? I can download data from open street maps, but then I need postgres, postgis, a tile server and styles and apache running just to generate the tiles. Is there anything portable (short of running osmand in an android virtualbox) for offline navigation on a linux pc? QGIS can display vectors, but I wasn't able to easily style the data... navigation is a no-go there too. anything else?

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There is a beta of Organic Maps for Linux. Check out bottom of this page: https://organicmaps.app/

I would still want to to know if I can selfhost something of similar, low complexity in my home network.

You can download an extract of your country from Geofabrik, run it through Tilemaker (https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker) to get a nice mbtiles file, and then use the built-in Ruby server to give you something you can load in your web-browser locally.

Post author here. Geofabrik has even started providing extracts in the Shortbread vector schema, the same schema we'll be using for our vector tiles.

I loaded OSM into my Garmin and have used it to drive around the world. No matter the country from Sudan to the Congo to France, the USA and Namibia, the maps have been precise to a T, and I'm staggered at the level of detail and completeness.

Completely free, too.

KDE Marble and GNOME Maps both use OSM, but I don't think the latter uses vector maps. The former does navigation.

As an aside, you can likely run OsmAnd in a container without having to use Virtualbox at all.

What about: https://marble.kde.org/features.php ?

Not Linux, so it's probably not going to help you much, but the OsmAnd iPad app seems to work just fine on macOS and afaik those run as native apps on M1/2/3 machines, and this particular one feels very similar to the macOS-native Maps app. I guess that's pretty close for those on a Macbook, though turn-by-turn navigation is going to suck with no onboard GPS. I just got it from the App Store to test this and I think I'm going to keep it, it's actually pretty neat.

There was(?) an awesome app Sas.Planet that worked with lots of map providers [0] and provided much more features, than just a map viewer. For example, I successfully used it to create offline satellite maps of remote areas. The team seems to still work on the project, but I wasn't able to find the site I was using a while ago, so giving a link to github.

A few word of caution:

- the app was a bit buggy (but usable)

- might not be well optimized in terms of amount of http requests sent, so some map providers don't like it [1]

[0] https://github.com/sasgis/sas.planet.src

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SAS.Planet

In the late 90's early 00's my family used OziExplorer on various laptops and devices. Our thinkpad 240 had a rough life in the bush and on the water.

A quick look suggests that it has some support for osm data but you would need to check more closely or use other sources.

https://www.oziexplorer4.com/w/

https://github.com/janbar/osmin/

https://github.com/rinigus/pure-maps/ (makes use of OSM Scout Server)

There's a port of OSMAnd, looks like it has stagnated.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/offroadosm/files/

Cruiser (proprietary but free of charge): https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cruiser

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