On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 03:56:33PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>     Hello.
>
>     I'm willing to run Organic Map on my Linux laptop. It has no GPS, but
> the goal is to visit the map and, possibly print some area using the screen
> capture -- there isn't a print comand on Organic Map and I can't imagine how
> there could be a screen capture on Android.

I am an active mapper for OpenStreetmap and I had never heard of
Organic Maps before. But it is based on Openstreetmap.

You say that you are trying to run it on your Linux laptop: that just
seems bizarre. Why not use one of the many "ordinary" Openstreetmap
applications most of which run on linux?

You might like to look at the wiki at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/.

If you want to download portions of the database (you could get the
whole thing, but it is enormous) visit http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/

But if you just want to print a rendering of a particular area, what is
wrong with just using a screen capture from the main page?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Explore the different renderings available under the "layers" icon.
The database has too much detail to include on any standard rendering.
If you really want to look directly at the database, use one of the
Openstreetmap editors: my favourite is josm. I have spent far too much
of the last week editing and extending the map using josm.
I forgot to say that there is a "tick box" on the layers window on the
main page "Map data" which will also display the underlying data, but
only enable it when zoomed in or it will overload your system. It is
only really useful when zoomed to maximum.

Personally I use navit for navigation which runs natively on linux
among other operating systems. It has a "demo" mode in which it is not
using gps. That would seem to do all that you want.
https://github.com/navit-gps/navit, https://navit.readthedocs.io/,
http://www.navit-project.org/ although some of the navit sites are
obsolete. Parts of navit are poorly documented: exploration can be
rewarding and surprising.

You can create a navit map with, IIRC, "maptool" which will build the
navit map from whatever snapshot you choose, probably from
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/

I also use mkgmap to produce Openstreetmaps for my handheld Garmin but
that is off-topic.

ael