On 2025-09-01 16:43:25, ael via Dng wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 04:44:07PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> >
> >     Thanks. I didn't know about applications of Openstreetmap for Linux. And
> > I'm fed up with the available commercial applications which are les and less
> > friendly as time goes and try hard to put more and more ads. I will try what
> > you suggest. It is for sure simpler and less intrusive than using flatpak to
> > port an Android app.
>
> There are very many open source ad free programs written by the
> OpenStreetMap community: mostly by linux users. Since the targets may be
> for navigation on portable devices, Android as well as other op systems
> are often included. And I gather there are options to run on Raspberry
> Pi's with gps modules attached.

Many years ago I wrote an OpenStreetMap to OpenSim converter. OpenSim a
virtual world system that is what all that metaverse hype described, but
it was created long before the hype. OpenSim is basically an open source
Second Life clone that anyone can run.

So you could log into this 3D world and walk around in whatever bit of
OpenStreetMap you decided to render that time.

> In all the cases that I know about, the maps are downloaded to the
> device, so nothing more than a gps signal is needed.

Yep, that's how I did mine. They didn't need a GPS signal, don't think
that works in virtual worlds.

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