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pbsurf commented on Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)   svg.nicubunu.ro/... · Posted by u/caminanteblanco
pbsurf · 6 months ago
Another SVG website: https://styluslabs.com/
pbsurf commented on OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps   blog.firedrake.org/archiv... · Posted by u/icheyne
jazzyjackson · 6 months ago
Wow the readme looks very impressive, would love to try this on my next off grid trek

Is it just you building it, is there a business behind it?

pbsurf · 6 months ago
No business, just me!
pbsurf commented on OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps   blog.firedrake.org/archiv... · Posted by u/icheyne
kabes · 6 months ago
But can you download a country up front? For offroad motorcycle trips I often get in to areas with no mobile connectivity
pbsurf · 6 months ago
Yes, you can download any region and set of layers for offline use.
pbsurf commented on OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps   blog.firedrake.org/archiv... · Posted by u/icheyne
pbsurf · 6 months ago
I've been building https://github.com/styluslabs/maps with support for 3D terrain, custom layers, and plugins for search and routing.

Vector tiles are generated and served on-demand by https://github.com/styluslabs/geodesk-tiles so there's no need to download an entire country or region first.

pbsurf commented on OpenPlanetData – Free Daily Planet OSM PBF and GOL Indexed Snapshots   openplanetdata.com... · Posted by u/lpellegr
pbsurf · 9 months ago
This is great! I recently built a simple project to generate and serve vector tiles on demand from a GOL file: https://github.com/styluslabs/geodesk-tiles
pbsurf commented on A community-led fork of Organic Maps   comaps.app/news/2025-05-1... · Posted by u/maelito
kmarc · 10 months ago
Sad to see the current state of mobile OSM-based apps. Maps.me becoming OrganicMaps, now this. Lot of development effort, great work going into it, but somehow, after years, the apps don't feel more user-friendly.

I was pushing hard to replace Google Maps, but eventually, I gave up. OsmAnd is great if you need that "swiss army knife of OSM apps" on your phone, but I rarely do. Same with Maps.me/Organic Maps, try to search for something, mistype only one letter (surprise, surprise, that happens a lot on mobile), and you have no chance to get results. Alternative path for your bike route? Forget about it. Rendering is awful, either ugly, or slow, or both.

I am trying to switch to Mapy.com (Mapy.cz before), it's a surprisingly user friendly app, however, not sure how they are going to monetize soon. So far the best on phone, I hope they will push and really become a Maps-replacement. They recently switched from a Czech-focused concept to a proper world-wide map (mapy.com); both web and mobile is great so far. (I am not Czech, and have no relation to mapy, simply really like their app)

If OsmAnd got a new rendering engine (no, not that "3D" sluggish thing it has for a couple years now), like streetcomplete has (or the Strava-built-in mapbox renderer), it would be possibly the best.

pbsurf · 10 months ago
I'm working on https://github.com/styluslabs/maps/ including a new 3D map engine (based on Tangram-ES) and JS plugin support, so while there is no offline routing yet, support for additional online routing services can be added by users.
pbsurf commented on Serving Vector Tiles, Fast   spatialists.ch/posts/2025... · Posted by u/altilunium
pbsurf · a year ago
I've built a server for generating OpenStreetMap vector tiles on demand from a GeoDesk database, which is barely larger than an .osm.pbf (100GB vs. 80GB for current planet.osm.pbf) - much smaller than a PostGIS instance: https://github.com/styluslabs/geodesk-tiles
pbsurf commented on Show HN: 3D Terrain simulation for hiking, skiing etc.   github.com/r-follador/Cub... · Posted by u/folli
barnabee · a year ago
Planning and navigating, the key features for me were:

- high res satellite imagery available for both summer and winter

- aspect and gradient shading

- routes and tracks shared and discoverable with description, altitude graph etc. for freeride routes, ski tours, hikes (great for visiting somewhere new)

I also enjoyed things like sharing the link to the 3D overview with friends after an epic day, but that’s both more easily replaced and less valuable to me.

I’m muddling through with a whole host of apps (Maps3D, Outmap, CalTopo etc.) and have tried and given up on still more, but FATMAP was so much better than any current alternative, particularly for skiing. (Mostly in Europe, if that makes a difference.)

pbsurf · a year ago
I'm working on https://github.com/styluslabs/maps - has Sentinel-2 imagery, slope angle shading and custom slope shading including slope aspect.
pbsurf commented on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?    · Posted by u/david927
pbsurf · 2 years ago
https://github.com/styluslabs/maps - open-source maps app
pbsurf commented on Using Qt for Mobile in 2023   camg.me/qt-mobile-2023/... · Posted by u/susam
pbsurf · 2 years ago
I believe QML ListView actually does support kinetic scrolling - Qt calls it "flicking". To get behavior closer to React Native, it might work to decrease the value of the Flickable flickDeceleration property [1].

That said, my troubles with Qt's performance and behavior on mobile led me to create my own cross-platform GUI library: https://github.com/styluslabs/ugui/

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-flickable.html

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