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When using an online provider, Pure Maps must send queries for tiles, search, and routing to the map provider. Make sure that this is what you want, and that you are fine with the privacy implications.
When using an online provider, Pure Maps must send queries for tiles, search, and routing to the map provider. Make sure that this is what you want, and that you are fine with the privacy implications.


There is no provider available, that can be used without registration. So you would need to register a free developer API key from a vector (e.g. mapbox.com or maptiler.com) or raster (e.g. here.com) maps provider. Then configure Pure Maps in postmarketOS to use your personal API key.
[https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/593#note_335530177 Find a suitable provider] and register a free (developer) API key if necessary. Then configure Pure Maps in postmarketOS to use it.


''(If somebody went through the process, please describe how to configure Pure Maps here.)''
''(If somebody went through the process, please describe how to configure Pure Maps here.)''

Revision as of 08:36, 17 May 2020

Pure Maps displays vector and raster maps, places, routes, and provides navigation instructions.

Data providers

The displayed map data is fetched from a provider, which is usually converting data from OSM into a format suitable for map clients such as Pure Maps. As of writing, there is no default data provider configured when installing Pure Maps in postmarketOS. You must configure a provider to make the app useful.

Offline

The most privacy friendly way of using this application will be with the offline provider OSM Scout Server. See pmaports#575 for an effort to package it in postmarketOS. In an early test it was noted, that running Pure Maps with OSM Scout Server requires a rather high amount of RAM with 2 GB, but maybe this can be optimized.

Online

When using an online provider, Pure Maps must send queries for tiles, search, and routing to the map provider. Make sure that this is what you want, and that you are fine with the privacy implications.

Find a suitable provider and register a free (developer) API key if necessary. Then configure Pure Maps in postmarketOS to use it.

(If somebody went through the process, please describe how to configure Pure Maps here.)

See also

  • pmaports!593 initial merge request (with an interesting discussion with the lead developer about vendor lock-in)