Fully self-hosted OpenStreetMap on Sandstorm
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orblivion · 2023-12-15 00:19

Sandstorm is still alive?! Weird, I know.

Six years ago I posted on this sub about a [package I made for Kiwix](
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/6v3gpa/host_wikipedia_and
_much_more_at_home_on_sandstorm/). I still believe in the Sandstorm
platform, and I wanted to show that it still has potential. I've now
released something much more ambitious, an OpenStreetMap app I call
Desert Atlas:

[https://sandstorm.org/news/2023-12-05-osm-on-
sandstorm](https://sandstorm.org/news/2023-12-05-osm-on-sandstorm)

It's **fully self-hosted**. This means you point and click to choose
regions of the base map that you download. Kind of like Organic Maps,
except the regions are saved to the Sandstorm "grain" (i.e. on your
server). Once you have your regions, you can privately search and
bookmark locations with friends. When you're done you can export those
bookmarks to Organic Maps or OsmAnd for navigation.

By comparison, Facilmap (available for YunoHost) and Nextcloud Maps
call out to third party services for base maps and search queries.
Headway on the other hand is fully self-hosted (I saw that they
announced themselves in this sub). Desert Atlas is much more stripped
down than Headway, mainly because of the limitations of Sandstorm (no
Postgres). This trades off some quality and features for even more
simplicity: Everything from installation of the app (thanks to
Sandstorm) to downloading regions is done in the browser UI.
(Sandstorm itself requires a little CLI time at the start.)