Garmin MapSource libre alternative

> Do you need it on a laptop? I know OSMand on Android actually downloads
> the map for use offline.

Sure. Trisquel all the way. Or else I would have not asked in here.

I use navit, it's fantastic. easy to use with touch but can be used with
a keyboard and mouse, works faily great in the car with rout auto
planning. it's in the repo. snag is with navit you have to edit a xml
file to configure it/setup. to tell it where your map data is and to
enable UI bits, I find it worth it. the config is farly self explanatory
but theres help on the wiki.

theres a java editor for the navit gui UI and config
http://sourceforge.net/p/navitconfigurat

you can get your mapdata here
http://maps5.navit-project.org/
select the area you want and download it. you'll then have that area
available for off-line use.

oh yea theres no uk postcode support due to evil royalmail and it
keeping the database as knowledge for the privileged (ie com's that can
pay the fees). wikileaks has a copy of the data base, that would do most
of the job i think~ but I don't know if anyone has done anything with
it. over time there leaked copy will become out of date due to the
official database changing.

navit is improving and the package in the repo becomes out of date. but
I believe you would have to compile it your self to get a newer version
unless someone's done it. Personally I just get on and use of the one in
the repo.