[OSM-talk] Smartphone mapping in Africa

[Bryce Cogswell]



> I think we need some way to make small areas of Africa available in a compressed format that can be unpacked on a smartphone with limited storage. 

Take a look at Portable OSM:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Portable_OpenStreetMap

> If possible it needs to display the local region and by local I mean say twenty kilometre square.

Go Map!! can download an unlimited amount of imagery for offline use. In terms of OSM data it’s limited to about 100,000 objects (nodes+ways) before it bogs down. 

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