UK OS maps??

[lohtse]

Hi All



Is there away to re-add OS maps for the uk for online source??



One of the reason I used  to love this app because of it and now they have benn removed I only use the app if have premade/downloaded OS maps and use and other app when out of those areas... Much prefer to use orux in allsituations and not data depended..





regards

Lohtse

[Visitor7]

Can create offline version of your favorite maps with Mobac (best way).

Can fix OruxMaps with the latest version of ApkTools (just don't ask me how to do this).

[febs]

I think it would only be a matter of compiling the correct entry in the mapsources.xml file, there should be no need to reverse engineer the app as far as I can think of.



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[febs]

Edit: i just read on a separate thread that the app is actually blocking some sources, sorry then.

I think this is not very good in my humble opinion, what should really matter in my opinion would be not *delivering* the copyrighted maps. But hey.



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[midori]

I am afraid that we can only blame the UK government and the Ordnance Survey for this situation.



It can be no coincidence that the loss of OSGB maps on Orux, coincides with the launch of an Ordnance Survey app for which you have to pay £1.99 for every 10km square you download, and presumably, if you are navigating near one of the vertices of a square, you have to download 4 squares.



By all accounts this app is bloated, and only really suited for tablets, which nobody is going to want to carry up a mountain. It has quite a poor rating on Google Play.



What is most annoying is that we, as UK taxpayers, have payed for the collection of this data, and are now having to pay another regressive tax on top of this. Compare this to the United States, hardly known for its state interventionism, or socialism, where USGS topo maps are availoable for people of all countries to use.



See the Guardian Open Data campaign...



http://www.theguardian.com/technology/free-our-data">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/free-our-data



In the meantime, I think the OpenCycle Map is the nearest good map for leisure use, as it has contour lines. Some features are sometimes missing, but we can all add these features ourselves, by contributing to the OpenStreetmap project.