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All hail OSM!!!
OSMAnd has literally saved my life when my Garmin died and my hiking buddy's phone also died and I remembered I had saved off-line maps for the state we were in and could traveling-salesman our way out of the mountains safely.
OSMAnd is pretty nice, but Organic Maps is just way better IMHO.
I can never get search to work. I can find addresses on the map, but when I type them in nothing comes up.
Better how? I've only played around with OSMand a little but it seems very full of features and options.
That’s its strength and its weakness imo; the UI is not as clear as the Organic Maps’, and it feels relatively cluttered.
Also, Organic is both gratis and libre, while OsmAnd is subscription based on iOS. It is a one time purchase on Android though, but that still means the full app isn’t gratis.
You can get OsmAnd for free through fdroid on android.
I don’t mind paying for an app, but fuck subscriptions. It’s dirt cheap and all, but I still won’t pay for it.
I’ll have a look at Organic though, that sounds right up my alley. If it’s open source, I can even have a look at raising a PR or two to pay them back.
Organic Maps is indeed open source and available through f-droid/GitHub/Telegram.
It's actively developed and it's UI is more easier to use than OSMAnd. The search accuracy is also way better than in OSMAnd, in which I often can't find places.
Let’s get all the Free Software communities on here!
Yesterday I've seen the other thread, curiosity got the best of me so I registered in openstreetmap and in Organic Maps I've added a missing cafe and a restaurant in my area. Fascinating!
Shout out to Humanitarian OSM Team (www.hotosm.org/)
You can help map roads, buildings and other features for disaster zones and other areas in urgent need of accurate mapping.
Is there a good user guide for osmand? Iwant to use it but it seems WAY too difficult
What are you trying to use it for? If you just need basic mapping, you might look at Organic Maps.
My primary use is driving directions. I've used organic maps, I'll try that again.
Thanks!
I've purchased OSMAnd on Android and I love it. But would like to try out Organic Maps.
I wonder: Is there a way to share the maps between the two? Or am I forced to keep both copies?
No. Both package the same OSM-data, but they use a different binary format.
That's a shame! Maybe there's a place for an "OSMService", serving maps to apps.
"MApps"?