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Download map on PC and upload to Android device

Vincent Maraqu shared this question 7 years ago
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How to download (OSM MTB Europe) map on PC and then import it in Locus map on Android device? I would like do download quite big area and it does it very slowly on android.


Often I got error and on beginning on every restart I think it goes through all parts which seems sloow. I end up with "Downloaded: xxx" going up while "Today: xxx" counter stands still until some long period of time.

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google: "run android on virtual machine"

setup an included playstore android image

install locus in the virtual machine

download map

copy to your smartphone sdcard

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What about downloading it by MOBAC and saving it as RMAPS SQLITE ( recommended officially and verified as compatible with Locus ).

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Hi,

firstly, thank you guys for help. I think both options could work, though Menion had recently warned that RMAPS not always work well. Does MOBAC support also some other formats? Like MBTILES or GEMF? I would choose them instead. As for virtual machine I myself have good experience with MEmu (I evaluated also some others in this article >>)

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I do not have my MOBAC instalation handy now, but I took recently part in a discussion about Rmaps format troubles. I was saying SQLite (RMaps) works fine for me. But Menion clarified my confusion, when he said the discussed Rmaps format is different to SQLite ( Rmaps ) and the latter is just fine.......

Truth is, MOBAC supports many formats.

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Yes Libor. MOBAC do the job also very well. Best file format (According to my experience) is the BigPlanet SQLite format

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To add for other users, SQLite is not a map format itself, but a database format of SQLite DB software. Within a SQLite DB, there can be defined as many formats for map storage as the authors wish. Therefore there exist multiple "SQlite formats".

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