[Librem-5-dev] Maps apps and Linux - Useful OSM library - and GPS question

[Luke Bryan]

Greetings all,

I was wondering about what sort of mapping apps would be available initially for Librem-5. Oddly enough there are not many Linux native mapping apps, and I was working on starting a Linux repeater app - the howto may be useful for anyone else building a map-based app, that supports offline map viewing and Python+GTK integration.
https://howtotrainyourrobot.com/building-an-amateur-radio-app-for-linux-part-1/
This library makes it pretty easy to make offline mapping apps and let's hope there are more Linux-native apps for things like Geocaching and routing, so the Linux phones will have more useful mobile apps 🙂 Will be updating this with more howtos and a Github repo soon with a more complete example.

One thing that will be an obvious question to anyone working on a mapping app, is where-am-I? and what libraries will be usable to see your exact position? I know there are example codes but they generally seem to be based on some specific or proprietary chip. What will the Librem phone be using to get GPS location, and do we have sample code?

Luke
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