Post #2030810

2026-05-05 13:50 UTC

#android #foss #maps Any lightweight app where I can download maps from open street maps, put markers for myself (basically bookmarks) AND automatically back them up or sync them to some place remote? #OrganicMaps only allows manual backups it seems 🤔

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@ludwigseibt@mstdn.social 2026-05-05 16:58

@realestninja@social.linux.pizza CoMaps (basically the same as Organicmaps) has a setting to automatically backup your favorites lists into a folder. Then you can use Syncthing to sync that folder somewhere remote.

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@lupo@toot.io 2026-05-05 14:57

@realestninja@social.linux.pizza I do such thing based on (literally) bookmarks to OpenTopomap.org in a separate profile in Firefox: https://opentopomap.org/#marker=14/52.51853/13.40461 Steps: * In Firefox export those bookmarks to a HTML file * Convert the HTML file to a CSV file containing names and coordinates, with some clumsy Linux shell script magic * Convert the CSV file to a GPX file containing waypoints with gpsbabel External commands used in the shell script: Only grep and sed. Maybe it's possible to convert the HTML bookmark file directly to a valid GPX file using a shell script. To have the GPX file available at an other device, Syncthing should be a good choice.

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