Looking for a desktop OSM client for use in Debian

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,

I have been fooling around with gps mapping from some days back.
Nothing major, just making tracks and traces using osmand on my
Samsung mobile phone.

The thing works and have been able to successfully copy the tracks
locally from  Card/Android/Data/net.osmand.plus/files/rec/filename.gpx
to my lappies and workstations using josm to view and get the
surroundings around the tracks and traces place.

But I do see a difference between the two softwares is that when I
first ran osmand, it asked me if I wanted to download offline vector
maps for Maharashtra as well as asked me to download the world map as
well. It took me a while but was able to do it.

Now I have been looking for a similar desktop client and so far it has
been a disappointment.

Can anybody give a suggestion or two ?

There are few features that the client should have -

a. Preferably it should be under a FOSS license - GPLv2/3 or even
copyleft licenses would do.

b. It should have ability to download offline vector maps

c. It should be able to generate more than one kind of tile -

- If I understand it correctly, when we use OSM , the tiles are being
generated on the server depending on what scale we put and bandwidth.
If it can be similarly done, then if you have loads of RAM you could
have a better-looking map (assuming that such tiles are FOSS as well.)

Looking for comments if people have some idea if something similar is
in works. I am not looking for a solution which involves fiddling
around with servers and databases, but something simpler from an
end-user kind of perspective.

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