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OsmAnd places integration

Open timechips opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

I do not have enough skill to write a plugin, so I'm posting the idea here. Would be great since you can download maps.

timechips avatar Jul 06 '24 14:07 timechips

We already have places search, and it also uses OSM?

shtrophic avatar Jul 07 '24 08:07 shtrophic

We already have places search, and it also uses OSM?

yes... OsmAnd is not the same as OSM. You can download maps and a lot more. Wouldn't be the places search faster when using a downloaded map? and It would of course work without internet. Since it is one of the most popular open source maps app, I think a lot of people would enjoy the option.

timechips avatar Jul 07 '24 11:07 timechips

...but OsmAnd is also OSM based. Offline maps are out of scope for a launcher. You might as well favourite your location that you've looked up via Kvaesitso and then tap on the map to open up a maps app (which could as well be OsmAnd / OrganicMaps)

shtrophic avatar Jul 07 '24 15:07 shtrophic

would it not be possible (similar to breezy weather) that the launcher would return the data in the app (search result, downloaded tiles)? So it would not query OSM, but query the already on device maps you have downloaded in the app. With that it could also refer to favorites and saved places in the app. And favoriting again more than 100 saved places as you are suggesting would be a daunting task.

timechips avatar Jul 07 '24 21:07 timechips

Its up to OsmAnd to support this as well

shtrophic avatar Jul 08 '24 05:07 shtrophic

Here is an API I found that looks like it does the trick (note that I'm very inexperienced). This AIDL API specifically.

timechips avatar Jul 08 '24 09:07 timechips