Kivy MapView offline

Issue

I'm planning to write a Kivy app containing a (small) offline map. Kivy's Mapview widget seems to be a good choice to display maps but before I start diving into it further one question that I couldn't figure out: Is it possible to use Mapview offline, by using locally stored tiles?

Solution

I managed to do it, it turns out it is not that complicated to do but it took some research (at least for a beginner like me). Here is a rough outline: 1. MapView supports mbtiles as source as detailed in the documentation - mbtiles can be created in TileMill 2. I wanted a map in Openstreetmap style, so I downloaded openstreetmap-carto from github. The installation manual explains quite well what needs to be done in order to obtain a map in this style 4. There the biggest challenge was to set up and manipulate a PostGIS database. This link helped: http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=loading_osm_postgis There were some additional issues along the way but all could be solved by combing through the internet.

Answered By - Jobiwan