This may seem kinda ironic to be posting about, but when I say offline, I don’t mean strictly physical (like print books), so much as stuff that still works even when internet’s disrupted or whatever.
This may be a tell of my age in some respects, but I still enjoy downloading music, games, ebooks, or (more rarely) movies that simply work without phoning home or updating super often. There’s a weird sort of relief that I have both physical & digital fallbacks for when there’s a “storm in the clouds” so to speak.
One piece of media I’ve been meaning to look into to help in this space are maps. Maps are tricky given that they’re living documents, but I’d love to get a good downloadable/print map for reference.
Btw little protip if you’re on Android, check out Aard2 and downloadable dictionaries. They’re remarkably small, and it’s so much better than the ad-littered dictionary sites/apps, and even supports multiple languages.
If you find a decent offline map program for Linux, be sure to let me know. This seems like something that could be useful.
Not linux, but an interesting mobile solution. Can probably port the android version to linux https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps. Found another for desktop/linux, but no routing features: https://github.com/heldersepu/GMapCatcher