When you are hiking, cycling, skiing or do any other activity in mountain
area, it is useful to have map that gives you overview about terrain. Clasic way
how to provide this overview in 2D map is adding contour lines. For fast
overview and good-looking map is great to add even hillshades.
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For those who don't know this project, you can get details on OpenRepos
entry.
In December 16, it was exactly one year after I released OSM
Scout version 0.13.
This version added map downloader that allows to download offline maps directly
from the phone, instead of running non-trivial import job on computer. Such
functionality in application would be useless without any backend serving
already processed databases from raw OpenStreetMap data. After one year of
maintaining this server and preparing updates, it is time for small
retrospection.
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