✉➡🌍 Acastus-Photon

✉➡🌍 Acastus-Photon is an open-source Android application in the Navigation & Travel category. It translates the name of a street, city, or point of interest into geographic coordinates. The result can be used as a location for further mapping or navigation tasks. This makes the application suitable for Android users who need to turn place names into coordinates.

Acastus-Photon can open the resulting coordinates in a map or navigation application, including OsmAnd, Maps.me, and APhotoManager. It can also share the location with other people through the Android send command. The application can be started by clicking an address in the Android Contacts application SimpleContatcs. To perform its geocoding work, it calls Photon-Server-Software over the internet.

Photon-Server-Software is described as a replacement for Google Maps and other geocoding services that can be run on a user’s own server. Information about setting up a Photon instance is available at https://github.com/komoot/photon. MirrorNest distributes the official Android build directly from its own storage. Before publishing, MirrorNest scans the mirrored build for malware.