[OSM-talk] finding drinking water with an Android app

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Mon Jun 4 08:29:10 UTC 2018


OSMand starts for me in less than a second, however the nearest drinking water is 150 miles away. Not many mapped and actually struggling to think where I would find one.

Phil (trigpoint) 

On 3 June 2018 19:29:24 BST, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Mateusz Konieczny
><matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 3. Jun 2018 18:05 by baloo at ursamundi.org:
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Mateusz Konieczny
>>> <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am looking for an application for Android displaying
>>> amenity=drinking_water
>>> 
>>> locations with available offline map - I am frequently using it to
>>> avoid buying plastic bottles
>>> 
>>> just to almost immediately throw it out.
>>> 
>>> Any simple open source map displaying locations of some objects
>>> 
>>> would also be great - it should be fairly simple to adapt.
>>> 
>>> Osmand displays and can find drinking water.
>> 
>> In my experience OSMand starts for a long time, like maps.me [1]. Is
>> at least  search
>> not taking any noticeable time?
>
>Startup of OSMand takes quite some time yes, it annoys me too.
>Searching 
>in the datafile of the Netherlands, some 850 MB, also takes a few 
>seconds. It is certainly not instant and if your impatient it can be a 
>bother.
>But it does not take minutes.
>
>Maarten
>
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