[Talk-us] offline OSM viewers for Windows, for Police/Fire?

[brad]

I think QmapShack would meet the requirements that Greg had except 
'Display Current Location' .

On 9/13/22 07:05, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a few esoteric but 100% open source things that might work in this niche:
>
> 1. QGIS, either loading a pre-cut .osm.pbf file or a set of shape 
> files (e.g. from download.geofabrik.de) - this will require some map 
> styling in QGIS, or finding stuff that might readily be available. 
> There was a talk about OSM in QGIS at SotM this year. (QGIS of course 
> has a f**ton of features which might be overload - but if not, can 
> even be extended in Python.)
>
> 2. QMapShack, a viewer for Garmin map files - basically the OSS 
> version of Garmin's Basecamp - together with any of the ready-made OSM 
> Garmin exports, or with a self-made Garmin map. There should even be 
> ready-made files with contours. QMapShack is available for Windows.
>
> 3. Local directory with pre-generated vector tiles together with a 
> small Javascript-based viewer; should then be viewable in the browser. 
> Tilemaker comes with such a sample application.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>