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I do not know if it's available on iOS (I suspect no) but on Android I am a really happy user of Osmand. It uses Openstreetmap as maps provider and I always use it when hiking. It gives you the altitude profile of your route which is very useful.
I also use Osmand, though when I compared it to Maps.me, loading a map was significantly slower in Osmand
I wish openstreetmap used elevation data for hiking. Say I want to climb to a hill back, it should calculate distance w.r.t elevation. Right now it assumes a straight line be it on a road or up and down a mountain.
The most commonly used routers for bicycle touring – Brouter and Cycle.travel – certainly take elevation into account and helped me personally out all over the world. Brouter has a hiking mode, though it is still in beta, and perhaps there are hiking-specific elevation-aware routers out there.
There is an existing f-droid version of Maps.me [1] and this looks like a separate effort. Despite having access to the source code, map hosting is a non-trivial problem [2]. [1]: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim [2]: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/-/issues/176
I wish openstreetmap used elevation data for hiking. Say I want to climb to a hill back, it should calculate distance w.r.t elevation. Right now it assumes a straight line be it on a road or up and down a mountain.
For tracks with steepness up to 30°, the straight line distance will be off by max 15%. If it's steeper then that, the actual terrain is the thing that determines how fast you can move.
> Thankfully, the original Belarusian engineers made the source code free. It is up to the community to pick up development of this app. Let's make sure that the MAPS.ME we know and love stays alive. No link to the source code? > If you like MAPS.ME, then please sign up. I will post updates on how it's going and will send instructions on how to get back the original app. No, how about you give the instructions in the…
The reason there are no instructions in the article yet is that the app is not published yet. I wanted to quickly inform people like me who woke up to an updated app about what happened and get a way to contact them once it's back up.
Too bad, maps.me was by far the best maps application for non city use, and ideal for hiking. Commendable initiative to bring it back in its original version! A few examples of why it was so great: Simple, non social bookmarks. As in: place a bookmark so you don't get lost while hiking, or when you find a nice spot you want to come back to later. Yep, a utility feature that doesn't somehow map to some stoopid busines…
For hiking, check out https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka . While it focuses on central Europe, it regularly imports OSM data worldwide and I found the coverage pretty good.
I used it throughout whole Europe, and found it superior to even local apps (map content) and OSMAnd (map rendering).
I wish openstreetmap used elevation data for hiking. Say I want to climb to a hill back, it should calculate distance w.r.t elevation. Right now it assumes a straight line be it on a road or up and down a mountain.
With regards to hiking in the mountains, the difference in distance between straight line vs corrected distance is quite irrelevant though. But the elevation profile of a track is important of course. Many applications do include elevation data in route analysis. For tracks with steepness up to 30°, the straight line distance will be off by max 15%. If it's steeper then that, the actual terrain is the thing that dete…
There is an existing f-droid version of Maps.me [1] and this looks like a separate effort. Despite having access to the source code, map hosting is a non-trivial problem [2]. [1]: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim [2]: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/-/issues/176
It becomes trvial if one uses MapTiler or Mapbox with their own styles and overlays. And even self hosting has much improved since the days of raster tiles.
MapTiler and Mapbox are expensive.
Suddenly the recurring removal of more and more details from the Google Maps visual style makes sense. Earlier I thought it was just a case of overzealous minimalism.