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[Frans Schreuder <fransschreuder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Sam Bull,

OSMScout is really different from OSMTouch and GPS-Navigation and all
the others. Even if they implement downloading of the apps, the total
implementation is different. Merging them would mean throwing one away
completely and implementing the functionality from scratch into the other.
Your idea is nice and is also what I would like to see myself, but
technically impossible.

To be more specific:
OSMScout is based on a library libosmscout which has a binary format.
The conversion to that format has to be done on a PC because it is quite
memory hungry (3+GB for France, 30+GB for Russia)

All the other apps are either web based, or use the QML "Map" component
from the Ubuntu Library. The Map component does support caching of
tiles, but I don't think it supports offline navigation and things like
that.

Frans

On 08/18/2015 12:57 PM, Sam Bull wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 15:06 +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
>> I have spent quite some time developing the OSMScout app for Ubuntu Phone.
>> I don't want to provide this app free of charge, but my time is also
>> limited.
>> Is there anyone out there with some c++ / qml skills who would like to
>> offer a hand to improve this app?
> OSMTouch is already a fairly nice app. I think it'd be really great to
> see the work merged together somehow, so we have one really nice app for
> OSM, rather than the 3 partial apps that we currently have.
>
> In particular, I rather like the design of OSMTouch, but it is missing
> the offline map download feature of OSMScout, and the satnav feature
> from uNav. It'd be great to get all these developers working on the same
> project.
>
> At the moment I need to have all 3 of these apps installed to have a
> functional OSM implementation.

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