On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:15:49 +0200
Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote:

> Urs Schütz wrote:
> > On 09/20/17 07:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote:  
> >> I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome,
> >> although I missed the Gentoo news bit if there was one.
> >>
> >> For Android there is the really good Open Street Map application,
> >> are there any desktop alternatives in Portage for non-Chrome
> >> users? I know OSM has a web interface but I'd prefer a standalone
> >> application. 
> > 
> > Maybe  sci-geosciences/viking ?
> > Try to change the map from MapQuest to MapNik to get a first
> > impression. 
> 
> Thanks to all for replies, I think I'll start with viking, qgis looks
> more complicated for a beginner. But as always (mapquest vs mapnik?
> why there are two? why should  choose?) when you scrape the surface
> complexity immediately emerges so it will take some time and study.

kde-apps/marble is good.  But unlike OsmAnd for Android it only uses
online, pre-rendered maps (they are cached to disk though).

Robert


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