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Pure Maps

Pure Maps is a maps and navigation program, available on Linux: offline maps.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Pure Maps is a maps and navigation program, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: offline maps.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Maps and navigation” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Depending on the used service provider, Pure Maps can rely fully either on online services or, together with OSM Scout Server, provide fully offline maps” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Pure Maps is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Pure Maps is an application to display vector and raster maps, places, routes, and provide navigation instructions with a flexible selection of data and service providers. Depending on the used service provider, Pure Maps can rely fully either on online services or, together with OSM Scout Server, provide fully offline maps

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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