Vitaliy Alexeyev

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Maps

Maps for the synshell desktop — OpenStreetMap with search, routes and your own location, on computers and phones.

READMEAUR package: syn-maps-binAUR package: syn-maps-git
Route

Features

  • Map — OpenStreetMap with smooth zoom by wheel, pinch and gestures; tiles are cached on disk.
  • Layers — Map, Light and Dark (OpenStreetMap under a filter) and Satellite (Esri World Imagery).
  • Search — places and addresses via Nominatim, nearest to the visible area first, names in the interface language.
  • Any point — long press (right click with a mouse) drops a pin and looks up its address; the card shows coordinates.
  • Routes — by car, on foot or by bike (OSRM servers of FOSSGIS): time, distance and a list of turns with street names; a tap on a turn shows it on the map.
  • Navigation — “Start” follows your position and shows the next maneuver with the distance to it and to the end.
  • Your location — from GeoClue (on a phone — satellites through the modem); the map follows you until you move it.
  • geo: links — opens geo: links from other applications (x-scheme-handler/geo).
  • Phone and desktop layout — full-width cards on a phone, a side column on a wide window; the last view and layer are remembered.
  • 14 languages — the UI follows the system or the language chosen in synshell.
Search Place, dark layer
Search Place

Install

Arch Linux (AUR) — x86_64 and aarch64:

yay -S syn-maps-bin      # prebuilt
yay -S syn-maps-git      # built from source

Depends on synshell-core. Your own location needs geoclue. Map tiles, search and routes need an internet connection.

syn-maps is part of the synshell metapackage — the whole desktop: yay -S synshell-bin. From source: cargo build --release -p syn-maps in the synshell repository.

Command line

syn-maps                                  # last view (or your location)
syn-maps 'geo:48.8584,2.2945?z=17'        # open a point
syn-maps --screenshot shot.png --size 1400x900 --page route   # render a view to PNG without a window

Part of synshell

syn-maps is one of the applications of synshell — a Wayland desktop environment in Rust for computers and phones, built on the syngui UI framework.

License

GPL-3.0-only