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Hi,
The Jolla phone can benefit from its Alien Dalvik layer to run Android offline maps apps (Here, Sygic, etc).

But, SFOS is being ported to many devices (there are people on working with FairPhone to run SFOS on the FP2), and when this happens, this is without Alien Dalvik.

There are some initiatives to get some SFOS maps apps (I think of PoorMaps and ModRana essentially). Those applications are great, but do not support offline maps (or in the very unfriendly way), probably because there are developed with very limited resources (for example I think only MartinK works on ModRana, but correct me if I'm wrong).

Recently Maps has got Open Source. It's available on Android and iOS stores, seems to be written with Qt and support offline maps "out of the box".

I know working on a software you didn't wrote is not a simple thing. But I dream of MartinK and Otsaloma (the person behind PoorMaps) joining their efforts to port Maps on SFOS. I'm even ready to financially support such an effort.

Am I alone?