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ChasingCars
ChasingCars

Reputation: 125

Importing Offline Map Nutiteq From Open Street Map

I am currently trying to import an offline map to nutiteq. I have downloaded a map from OpenStreetMap but that map has an .osm extension. How can I import that kind of extension to Android ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 731

Answers (2)

JaakL
JaakL

Reputation: 4295

As scai mentions, .osm is raw data file which cannot be directly used. .osm is data exchange format and it needs processing to be used in applications, including apps with Nutiteq SDK. Main missing piece from .osm file is visual styling: .osm file defines coordinates of objects and identity (e.g. that a line is "highway"), but it gives no hint whatsoever how to draw it - with which colors, line width etc.

What I'd suggest to try is to convert .osm file to .map file using osmosis, and then use mapsforge library to render a map like shown in Nutiteq wiki page. Mapsforge includes some default style, but you can find nicer stylesheets. There are several providers for readymade and up-to-date .map files with OpenStreetMap data, so maybe you do not need to do the conversion, one of them is AndroidMaps who even includes even several stylesheets.

Upvotes: 2

scai
scai

Reputation: 21469

.osm is just OSM's XML file format containing elements and tags. That is, it contains raw data. According to the nutiteq website nutiteq doesn't support this format directly. But it supports various other formats like MBTiles which are suitable for offline use.

Upvotes: 1

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