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OsmAnd mentions (120)

• Bridges in the US are threaten by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars

  > Google maps and Waze does not allow for setting vehicle height As a side note, OsmAnd supports setting vehicle height* and has support for multiple vehicles/routing profiles: https://osmand.net *: and weight, width, and length. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Organic Maps is a free Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers

  How does it compare to OsmAnd? https://osmand.net. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• "I'm in this picture and I don't like it"

  OsmAnd works for me. I am looking to get off Google, so I try to retire anything that is not on F-Droid. OsmAnd is a independent project ( osmand.net ) that uses the data you can also access under www.openstreetmap.org . The App is not perfect and sometimes it calls for the wrong action, for example when a road is just taking a steep turn it might ask for you to turn onto a different road which is actually the... Source: 6 months ago

• WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

  When I am on a flight and the flight does not provide the flight information, I am using the OsmAnd, https://osmand.net/, to monitor the flight altitude, speed and direction. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Improving your online privacy: An update

  Regarding usage of OpenStreetMap over Google Maps - assuming we're talking mobile usage - you might give OSMAnd[0] a try. I've been using it exclusively on a Pixel loaded with GrapheneOS for a few months now. I would never consider going back to GMaps and I don't feel that I've lost anything either. [0] - https://osmand.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Kiwix mentions (14)

• Why I Bought an Encyclopedia

  Try Kiwix. It's an offline reader, you can download the complete English-language Wikipedia, complete with media, in about 100GB. They also have a bunch of other collections like Project Gutenberg. https://kiwix.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• An Introduction to the WARC File

  Very helpful to know that! Zimit[1] also uses warc files as an intermediate step to producing Zim files. You can use these Zim files to read and search websites offline with the excellent app Kiwix[2]. I think 'Kiwix for Android' and the Kiwix PWA support Zim files made with Zimit, with the support with the desktop Kiwix application currently work-in-progress. Other information about archiving websites is... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Wikipedia exec salaries are sparking a debate on tech sector wages

  For the locally hosted part of it, you’re looking at Kiwix[1]. [1] https://kiwix.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy

  Without article history and videos, it's small enough that many modern smartphones can have a local offline copy. http://kiwix.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Downloadable resources?

  It is pretty massive, but you can get the whole thing in a .zim file from kiwix.org. I downloaded it from there and put it on all my units before shipping them out. Source: 12 months ago