Someone asked if I would do live turn by turn & voice navigation. Yes and yes…but not for a while / I’m sick of this thing for now.

I outlined in the other post of how I think it should be added ; if you’d like to give it a shot, have at it.

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Someone over on !perth asked a good question and it made me realise…it’s PiMaps (duh).

Which means you could probably host this on a Pi Zero 2 W with an SD card, then just connect your phone to its Wi-Fi hotspot.

Plug it into your car lighter via a converter, or even easier, run it from a USB battery bank.

So, for about $100 USD, if that, you could have a little “car server” that feeds PiMaps to your phone using basic off-the-shelf gear that you literally Lego together.

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My biggest complaint is calling it “Pi” anything, there are already way too many things called “Pi”, some of which are for Raspberry Pi, some of which aren’t, and then there’s Pi itself (the number) it’s just an all-around confusing name and it sometimes makes related things incredibly difficult to search for and find.

Fork it call it and call it Chazzwazzers? 🤣

Kidding aside, it was designed to run on a low memory device, specifically the raspberry pi. It displays maps. So…

That and the dev speaking near fluent slop in all their comments.

To be fair thats probably why the name is unexplainably weird, once the prompt is written the devs job is already done

I called it Pimaps because I host it on a Pi. Radical, I know.

What exactly is your malfunction? You’re chasing me through three communities calling a freely shared, hand-coded project - one folks here begged me to share - slop. Put up or shut up. Audit the codebase if you have the chops. Or do you just like to talk shit and hope no one calls you out?

vibecoders have made us all so skeptical of any text that gets made fast. I don’t blame people for being skeptical but it’s sad when people jump to the negative conclusion. idk what it is exactly but you seem like the real deal. very cool project and you seem to be a good sport about everything

We’ve reached the level of AI that you cannot differentiate it from autism. We’re fucked.

😱😬🤣😐🙃🙈💩

What does this solve that osmand and other map apps don’t already do?

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

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.

Not sure why you’re getting grief in the comments. I don’t think this is for me but you’ve been transparent about the AI use and it seems like a cool project. Good luck with it!

Thanks.

It’s Lemmy. Everything is apparently AI slop now.

• Post about a personal project
• People ask “can you share the source”?
• Share source
• Idiots crawl out the wood work calling it slop

Again: coded by meatbag ™; documented and poked by clanker.

I think my main issue for this one is the requirement for internet. I cannot seem to be able to start it up because bootstrap is trying to download files. I’ve already downloaded the respective Zim file into the data folder. I by default block internet access to all docket images, and leave those I don’t want external access for that way.

If you can update an offline installer, and maybe docker images for the entire project instead of requiring cloning it down, I think this project would be awesome

Yep, I think I can see the issue. Let me think thru it properly when I’m back home. The way it works right now is that Docker Compose pulls the Python/nginx/BRouter images (and Kiwix if you’re using that), then bootstrap grabs the CORE WA assets as a once-off download.

The problem is that on a fresh install bootstrap doesn’t recognise pre-seeded CORE assets if you grab them manually. The ZIM is the exception (that one can be be validated and reused locally). So at the moment it assumes a once-off net connection to grab the PMTiles, search DB and routing data, and then you can basically lobotomize it from the internet afterwards. That was because I didn’t want to package the whole thing as one giant glob with a half GB d/l, as that might choke a SBC (it made my Rpi4 do exactly that).