OSM Scout (native map app)

While there’s quite a bunch of topics and discussion around Pure maps and OSM Scout server, there seems to be practically none about OSM scout by @karry, which I tend to favour for many usescases.

So, question: What does the message “unsupported url” mean?

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It is my map app of choice, too. Afaik the message means, that OSM Scout cannot handle the URL (e.g. if you have a “malformed” location entry in your calender and OSM Scout tries to open this).

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I’m not aware of using any kind of URL, don’t have any referenced calendar entries either. It just appears every time I open the application.

I also observe this, when using offline maps everything works anyways, but when switching to online maps everything becomes really slow. Maybe the online maps are broken somehow. As far as I know @karry runs his own server for the map tiles, maybe the system is down somehow.

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Indeed, got the same. So, no idea here.

I get this every time when I launch it from the app drawer, but never when I launch it from the command line. I thought it picks something up on the command line, but it’s not as simple as that apparently.

It seems this will be fixed in next version :

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We are allowed to have url handlers in the applications distributed via Harbour from the end of 2025 (see community news). But the launcher invokes the url handler (D-Bus method) on every startup, even there is no url to open. So, we need to filter out empty urls and do not show error. It will be fixed in next release.

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Thank you for clarifying!