Real World Use Cases

[CycloMies]

@Nanovitruvius, welcome! On demand positions should be easily doable (for an average coder). Offline maps, including .gmap support, has been discussed here:

Offline maps on Meshtastic

Regarding the offline use of Meshtastic, there could be support for offline maps. The map engine should be smooth, and support both raster and vector maps. For example, c:geo is a open source project, which I found today by recommendation, and the map engine supports both raster and vector maps (and plenty of other features). I did test the engine, and it does run smoothly, even with a 4Gb .map Mapsforge vector map. Sharing offline map files, to save space, with other mapping applications can b…