Comment on What self-hosted services can help during a crisis or emergency? This is for those affected OR those who want to help

MHanak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, that escalated quickly…

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• vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  host maps

  It does require a beefy server (rendering tiles is CPU/RAM-intensive, storing pre-rendered tiles is expensive on storage) It should be doable on limited hardware if only a small area.

  I think the better move would be keeping/distributing a local copy of the OsmAnd android APK and a few maps for the app. Because you’ll not be able to provide map access to people from your server if the Internet/local fiber/phone network is down - this way everyone can have their own full copy of the map.

  I’m not sure about the method to extract map data from the app storage directory though.

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