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So, quick question, what is the solution to run my own self-hosted OSM server and use that for turn based navigation with GPS ?
Can I do that ?
I want to leave google maps behind forever
OSM is like Wikipedia, there is no point self hosting it. If you want to download the data you can, OrganicMaps/CoMaps for android does this automatically so you can use it offline
What do you mean no point in self-hosting it.
I do plan to host a private wikipedia instance, resiliency is it's own point.
I understand it's not necessarily economical to run private instance when I could use "someone else's computer"
but I'm in a very burned out mood about "other people's computers" and how often they stop doing what I want
I do want to run my own things, my own fully offline, pull out the internet and it still works things
If anything as prevention against capability regression
Not going to repeat what the other person replied to you but just to let you know: https://kiwix.org/en/
If that is what I think it is then that's sick ! Thank you !
There is a worldwide data dump (153 GB) once in a while. download.
You can spin up your own database server and a separate routing server, e.g. osrm.
You will inevitably fall behind in live edits though, forcing you to download a new dump periodically. As long as your own database doesn't need to have any edits, this should be fine, but tedious.
You will probably also need to host a tile rendering server ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_Rendering) that will print the map, which can be quite computation heavy. The official servers have a lot to benefit from cdn/cache. Self hosters will not.
You also need a gui - perhaps Leaflet - to put it all together.
Sorry, can't answer this. - But I never use Google Maps or any self-hosted solution, just "OsmAnd" (https://osmand.net/) on my mobile for about a decade. It gives all I need for navigation, thought it's not FOSS.
What do you mena it's not FOSS ? AFAIK it is
Well, I might have read the license wrong. If I read again now, I understand it is partially open, quote from their website:
@Vroomfondel @interdimensionalmeme As pointed, with OsmAnd, CoMaps (https://www.comaps.app/), or similar, you can download maps for offline navigation. No need to self-host OSM itself.