I just discovered kiwix, a tool to access wikipedia on a network without internet access. Is there something similar for osm?
This is useful for rural communities without internet access
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You can get the ZIM file of the wiki for the use in Kiwix already here.
And it’s already integrated in their viewer here.
The respective GitHub issues are here and here.
A great article about this topic you can find here.
The same issue was raised here on the Community Forum a year ago.
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If you are referring to OSM proper, @mcliquid already answered for the OSM wiki, as you are surely aware there are a number of offline solutions for navigation.
Once you get in to editing it gets a bit dicey, Vespucci supports a tiled offline format that can be used for editing (GitHub - simonpoole/mapsplit: A fast way to split OSM data in to a portable tiled format) and this works well if you now and then can upload your work and on the next day download or create a new data file. It should be noted that you can’t magically avoid conflicts and stale data, so it is best suited for editing in areas with little activity.
See Going completely offline with Vespucci - Vespucci for information on the format and Offline data guide - Vespucci on how to configure it
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Thank you for your answers. I didn’t know them and are amazing. In fact, I asked this question because in my country there are communities very far from urban places, without connectivity, and there is a project called Kimera to bring Wikipedia for the teachers and students, to access this network with their devices, by consuming the local data, and not accessing Internet.
However, I was thinking more like a osm website offline, to be consumed from a local network.
Currently, we have offline viewers like OsmAnd or OrganicMaps that download parts of the map on the device, and one can see it.
But I was thinking something like in a local network without internet access to navigate the osm site or similar one, just to see the map, perform zoom and eventually some queries (nominatim, and by element).
There have over the years been multiple ‘OSM in a box’ projects. I suspect that none of them are particularly current simply because technology changes and there’s more and more OSM data to deal with.
These days I would likely suggest, for an entirely static service, a set of vector tiles, a current photon dump plus a mini website around that.
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