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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by tomcooks on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:57AM (#27046970)
When on a bike ride between Spain and France but you only have 2G connection from your termux session to the tmux session running mapscii on your VPS. Google maps would timeout and you can't download a billion gigabyte map file.
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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by anthk on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:31AM (#27048253)
Just use OSMand from FDroid and download the offline maps. The just use the GPS.

That's what I did with my GF at the French Basque Country in order to avoid paying roaming fees. The map files for a few provinces don't occupy more than few GB's. I think the whole map of Spain was about 3GB.

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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by tomcooks on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:02AM (#27085259)
Between Spain and France you can barely download mail (a few kB), let alone download a map.

In Europe you don't need to worry about roaming, if you have and European SIM.

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