Adding offline maps

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Using offline maps would be really great for not having to be online all
the time.

A possible way would be OpenStreetMaps: http://code.google.com/p/osmdroid/
this is a replacement for the google maps action.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jahwe2...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2009 at 3:48

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On clicking "Map" you can choose between Google Maps and AndNav2!. Unfortunately
AndNav2! can't interpret the coordinates and claims "No places found".

Original comment by ghoe...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2009 at 6:34

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Original comment by stephen5...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2009 at 1:33

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Original comment by stephen5...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2009 at 2:47

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Issue 86 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by andpet@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2009 at 11:15

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Mail from Eemu in thread
http://groups.google.com/group/geobeagle/browse_thread/thread/a10eb9cf86af5676

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It seems that it is Geobeagle that messes up the link and some weird
reason googlemaps works. Link what Geobeagle generates is some kind
location search what is not specified in specs. I think that is would
be nice is Geobeagle would generate standard geo links..

http://www.andnav.org/index.php/de/forum/topic?id=419#p1764

http://www.openintents.org/en/node/35
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Should be easy to fix -- only change the format of the location search
string sent to Google Maps / AndNav.

Original comment by andpet@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2009 at 11:16

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Issue 108 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by andpet@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2009 at 6:24

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Looking into the possibility for this. It is still unclear how much work it 
entails.

Original comment by andpet@gmail.com on 25 Nov 2009 at 7:01

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Another open-source project that uses OSM: http://code.google.com/p/locify/

Original comment by andpet@gmail.com on 25 Nov 2009 at 7:33

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Native support for offline maps with OSM seems to require a lot of coding even 
though 
there are already applications that use it.
First priority should be to send correctly formatted intents to AndNav2.
RMaps is another offline maps app that GeoBeagle could send coordinates to.

Original comment by andpet@gmail.com on 4 Dec 2009 at 8:16

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I managed to get geobeagle work with AndNav2, see attached file 
"IntentStarterGeo.java" (from 
GeoBeagle/src/com/google/code/geobeagle/activity/main/intents/). When pressed 
on the 
"Map" button AndNav2 will show the current cache (example at "andnav2.png"). 
Using 
"TrekBuddy Atlas Creator" (from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trekbuddyatlasc/) it's 
possible to use a lot of offline maps now. This is especially helpful when 
hunting in 
regions with bad GSM receipt.

Original comment by ghoe...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2009 at 9:28

Attachments:

• IntentStarterGeo.java
• andnav2.png

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What about supporting Mapdroyd?

Original comment by Josef.S...@gmail.com on 8 May 2010 at 9:31

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Thanks for the patch!

How would this work in the UI?  Should the offline map be configurable in 
preferences?  Or is there a way to 
attempt to use online maps and then fallback to offline maps if they aren't 
there?

Steve

Original comment by stephen5...@gmail.com on 8 May 2010 at 11:44

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I think it would be great if you added a new setting where the user can choose
whether to use google maps or offline map (via indent). That would simplyfy the
layouts since there is only one button "Map".

Original comment by ettinger...@googlemail.com on 19 May 2010 at 4:34

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"Maverick allows several map sources and will cache the map tiles,
and I'd love to see GeoBeagle do the same.  I don't have unlimited
data and AT&T's data network is very slow, so it would be nice to
capture map tiles over a WiFi connection and store them for when I'm
in the field.  Maybe it could be a manual task, like "Capture map
tiles for caches".  I would say that the highest zoom level is most
important, but it would be nice if this was configurable for those
with very large SD cards who would like to store tiles at lower zoom
levels."

Original comment by stephen5...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 3:51