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Re: Organic Maps

#21

Post by fhchl »

I highly recommend "mapy.cz", another free, ad free, offline map app. I used it for a longer hike in Slovenia this summer and was amazed that it included all of the hiking trails we encountered in the area.

We were hiking the Slovenian Mountain Trail. What a beauty!

Re: Organic Maps

#22

Post by fransje26 »

ynoxinul wrote: post #14
hnben wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In your opinion what is the most important feature missing in organic maps (compared to OSMAnd)?

Importing GPX tracks and displaying it on the map. For my bike trips I do my planning in advance on a computer using brouter or openrouteservice, then import the created file into OSMAnd.

We were writing about missing the same feature, for the same reason, at the same time. :'-)

Re: Organic Maps

#24

Post by biodranik »

ynoxinul wrote: post #14
hnben wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In your opinion what is the most important feature missing in organic maps (compared to OSMAnd)?

Importing GPX tracks and displaying it on the map. For my bike trips I do my planning in advance on a computer using brouter or openrouteservice, then import the created file into OSMAnd.

GPX import was already implemented several months ago.

Re: Organic Maps

#26

Post by vjerancrnjak »

fransje26 wrote: post #17
hnben wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In your opinion what is the most important feature missing in organic maps (compared to OSMAnd)?

The ability to import a gpx track, for instance.

Is gpx more powerful than kml? I see that in my lists I have circular paths and other things, so I must have imported it to OrganicMaps

Re: Organic Maps

#27

Post by biodranik »

onetimeacc wrote: post #16
hnben wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In your opinion what is the most important feature missing in organic maps (compared to OSMAnd)?

track recording

That's planned, now as we fixed some background location-related issues, nothing is blocking the track recording feature.

Re: Organic Maps

#28

Post by biodranik »

euroderf wrote: post #6
dbrgn wrote: post #3

Organic Maps is less powerful than OSMAnd (on Android), but it's much more straightforward and easy to use. It's the go-to app I recommend to all casual map users that want offline maps.

For offline use I've been quite happy with Maps.me (also OSM-based) but it sounds like Organic Maps is worth a try.

We have created maps.me, open-sourced it, and then forked it to create Organic Maps.

Re: Organic Maps

#29

Post by biodranik »

shellfishgene wrote: post #13
baz00 wrote: post #2

I cannot really express how much praise I have for Organic Maps. It has got me out of the mire a couple of times due to the complete offline capability and paper maps being completely wrong. The OSM base layer is better than a lot of native maps out there. Not only that, you can search for a toilet almost anywhere, including in the middle of nowhere in central Asia, and it found one!

Maybe I'm a little jaded by how the app economy works nowadays, but I find it almost suspicious how fast development seems and how well supported Organic Maps is. At least the high level of quality is explained by the fact that the lead developers seem to be the founders of the original maps.me.

We're not alone, our community and contributors are helping us!

Re: Organic Maps

#30

Post by biodranik »

onetimeacc wrote: post #15

I love organic maps. It's my daily driver for navigation, especially in rural areas where GoogleMaps just sucks. I wish they added warnings for speed limits though. They do this only when there is a speed camera, but not generally. The PR is here: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/5233

This feature is planned, please check our Github and other 1800+ features/issues :)
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