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Love it. I hope they make their tile servers a little more torrent like. I'd love to chip in but the requirements are just out of my league. Symetrical gigabit sure...but 30TB a month. Don't think my ISP is buying that as residential use. So I'll just stick to seeding linux ISOs...
The beta testing of torrents for planet dumps was actually announced just minutes ago: https://twitter.com/OSM_Tech/status/1329182062516051970
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Do people really use OSM for POI data on any meaningful scale? I tried really hard to use OSM but all the apps were really bad. OSMAnd seemed like the best one but it was super slow rendering on my phone while everything else was snappy. The only use I have seen for OSM data is in 3rd party apps like strava where you only really need street data which is pretty accurate on OSM. Or other specialized cases where you mo…
There are two great app that use OSM data that I see a lot of people use. * Maps.me - I used it a lot when travelling last year in Southeast Asia. And I noticed many other travellers were using it too. It was basically expected that people use Maps.me there. I guess it helps that it's also integrated with booking.com data so you have a lot of hostels there if you are looking for a place to stay in new cit. However it…
I just wish somebody made a desktop port of OsmAnd. I'd pay for that.
There is one. https://sourceforge.net/projects/offroadosm/