Looking for a desktop OSM client for use in Debian

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 08/23/16 19:22, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> I have been fooling around with gps mapping from some days back.
> Nothing major, just making tracks and traces using osmand on my
> Samsung mobile phone.
>
> The thing works and have been able to successfully copy the tracks
> locally from  Card/Android/Data/net.osmand.plus/files/rec/filename.gpx
> to my lappies and workstations using josm to view and get the
> surroundings around the tracks and traces place.
>
> But I do see a difference between the two softwares is that when I
> first ran osmand, it asked me if I wanted to download offline vector
> maps for Maharashtra as well as asked me to download the world map as
> well. It took me a while but was able to do it.
>
> Now I have been looking for a similar desktop client and so far it has
> been a disappointment.
>
> Can anybody give a suggestion or two ?
>
> There are few features that the client should have -
>
> a. Preferably it should be under a FOSS license - GPLv2/3 or even
> copyleft licenses would do.
>
> b. It should have ability to download offline vector maps
>
> c. It should be able to generate more than one kind of tile -
>
> - If I understand it correctly, when we use OSM , the tiles are being
> generated on the server depending on what scale we put and bandwidth.
> If it can be similarly done, then if you have loads of RAM you could
> have a better-looking map (assuming that such tiles are FOSS as well.)
>
> Looking for comments if people have some idea if something similar is
> in works. I am not looking for a solution which involves fiddling
> around with servers and databases, but something simpler from an
> end-user kind of perspective.

I don't think there is an application that meets your requirements.

QMapShack is a good desktop application to plan trips and work with GPX 
data, it supports Garmin maps (e.g. from garmin.openstreetmap.nl) but 
can use online tileservices as well.

You may want to redirect this question to the general Debian GIS list 
(debian-gis at lists.debian.org) as this list is mostly for package 
maintenance.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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