Hello,
I want to replace my Android “smart”-phone with a “dumb”-phone and a Linux laptop/tablet; the only Android app that I will miss is OsmAnd.
Does any such software exist for Linux?
The features I require most are
offline maps
route finding (it’s called navigation in OsmAnd, but I do not require the voice commands and/or GPS)
searching
(Searching this forum I can see there's JOSM, but it seems very focused on editing, not traveling.
I don't even know how to download a map for any given country.)
This looks quite good, there’s a version 0.5-1 in my distro’s repositories and it does pretty much what I want: Download maps, and navigation.
Also has POIs.
It locks up when calculating routes; pretty much exactly like OsmAnd does (sometimes)
Not so bad, but it seems focused on map development and I could not find a working source to download maps.
Gnome Maps could be a good choice.
A component of Gnome desktop, updated versions, uses Nominatim and Graphhoper…
But for some features you need to be online.
I use qmapshack. Curiously it is not on the wiki. For your goals:
Offline, yes, it can load various formats. I build my OSM garmin maps and it reads those.
Routing, Yes
Searching: not very good.
it isn’t focused on development I think, I found it focused on browsing and navigation, searching POI.
the wiki page has the download links to app, and map and POIs. It uses mapforge file as offline database, and a separate POI file for searching offline POIs. If you open the app, in download map option, you will find the download links.
it has these as you wanted most:
offline map (online available too)
offline POI
offline POI search
online/offline Navigation
and more…
bad thing is you can’t select a place/POI and see information instead of from search result.
Yes, I would prefer opensource.
I actually had Qmapshack already installed on my machine but never really got into it. Will do.
In any case, I have got plenty of really good answers, thank you all very very much!
…and I should have searched the wiki before asking…
I’m not promising anything but I’ll try to check back here when I’ve set everything up.
Currently I’m leaning towards a self-built raspbery pi tablet to fulfil my mobile computing needs, so that might take a while…
I do have the dumb phone already. Feels good.