Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by thr0w3345 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:19AM
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Check out pocket earth, the UI is a bit clumsy but it’s clearly a labour of love by the author and has served me well in such scenarios..
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Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by paozac on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:03AM
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I've been using Pocket Earth for a long time and love the way to measure the distance between two points, but the interface is atrocious.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by ruph123 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:55AM
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Wow thank you. That is quite feature complete. It is just the ugliest map that I have ever seen. And there seems to be no way of changing the map theme. Will still try it as my default for now. Thanks!
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by bartvk on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:45AM
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I second Pocket Earth.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by StringyBob on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:56AM
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Pocket earth with the contour maps has been my go to offline hiking map for the last 5 years - not many other openstreetmap systems have that countour data.
I think it uses the https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ dataset, which is great, but I did get caught out once by voids in shuttle data meaning there was a 1000m deep hole in the mountain map that wasn’t there!