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Support for offline maps in .osm.pbf format

Open mbx64 opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

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.

mbx64 avatar Nov 16 '23 11:11 mbx64