Signal-android: Use OpenStreetMap as location provider

Created on 8 Jan 2016 · 6Comments · Source: signalapp/Signal-Android

I think in most areas of the world OpenStreetMap provides better and more detailled map data than Google Maps. Also there are many providers you can get map data and have an osm map underneath if osm.org or nominatim alone don't work for how location sharing is implemented today. i
I would love to see more love for non proprietary stuff.

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piratenpanda

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@moxie0 would you accept a pull request that used OsmAnd's API as a fallback if Google Maps is not available?

Be-ing on 12 Mar 2017

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Something on this topic was already said in #4980.

FeuRenard on 8 Jan 2016

Thanks but I don't think we're going to do this. We'd have to rewrite the entire placepicker, and it looks like the OSM Android SDK is a ways behind in MapView compatibility.

moxie0 on 8 Jan 2016

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So sad :-(

amenk on 18 Jan 2016

I have opened a feature request for OsmAnd to provide a drop in replacement for the Google Maps API.

FWIW, I can receive locations other Signal users send to me and open them with OsmAnd without Google Maps.

Be-ing on 23 Feb 2017

OsmAnd has an API to hook into. I do not know whether it provides everything that would be needed for Signal's use case. Unfortunately using it would require writing a new fallback place picker from scratch.

Be-ing on 8 Mar 2017

@moxie0 would you accept a pull request that used OsmAnd's API as a fallback if Google Maps is not available?

Be-ing on 12 Mar 2017

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