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What does this solve that osmand and other map apps don’t already do?
Replying to @moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
It combines offline mapping, search, wiki backed POI and routing into a service I control and can use across my own network.
It “solves” the problem of me wanting to do exactly that, using a Raspberry pi, and does so in under half a gig of ram.
It’s not a product I made for anyone else; I’m sharing it because people asked me to share it (thus the all at once remote push to github btw; I had no intention of sharing this until Lemmy asked).
Osmand has all of that, but the maps run locally on the client.
So I guess the only differende is that this lets you download the map once for all your devices instead of on each od your clients directly
Replying to @moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
That - and the fact that you may be used to radically more modern clients than my family seems willing to nurse.
I’ve got a dude with an OLPC. And another with an HTC One M8. A third with an Android 8 flip phone.
“Hey- you know computers. Make us a Google Maps.”
“Just…buy a modern phone.”
“No.”
“…”
Anyway, it was fun and I wanted to do it. So I did. I only ever write code under four circumstances
- you’re my kid and you ask me to do something impossible
- you pay me
- it’s fun
- sheer spite
That list may or may not be ordinal.