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Support for offline maps in .osm.pbf format
Autopsy does currently only support raster tiles as offline maps (either .zip
or .mbtiles
, see docs). Raster tiles have some major disadvantages:
- High storage consumption
- Almost unavailable on the internet, except behind pay walls
- Not easy to generate/render from vector tiles by oneself
It seems to be way more common to share offline map data via vector tiles, e. g.:
- https://download.geofabrik.de/
- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
It would be nice to have support for publicly available map data in .osm.pbf
format.