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Re: Organic Maps

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Post by mrd3v0 »

rqtwteye wrote: post #51
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!

Organic Maps is great. I just wish OSM worked on search more. They are behind there.

Which should be an exciting project any person can work on, given the decent amount of metadata OSM provides.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by Vinnl »

hnben wrote: post #10
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.

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

- I miss the ability to make Wikivoyage articles (and their associated POIs) available offline, which is really useful when travelling.

- OsmAnd's flags feel more ephemeral, whereas in Organic Maps I'm just adding them as regular bookmarks under "My places", which make them harder to distinguish from bookmarks I want to keep long-term.

- Bus lines and stops are pretty useful if you're taking the bus somewhere unfamiliar.

But those are pretty minor; I've still switched to Organic Maps just because it's so much easier to use (ironically, that probably is because it has fewer features).

Also, I just keep both installed just in case, so I can always fall back to OsmAnd :)

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by ynoxinul »

biodranik wrote: post #24
ynoxinul wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank you, I found it! You have to click the star icon.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

Started using Organic Maps during the pandemic, this is the app that weaned me out of Google Maps.

At the moment I only really use Google Maps to check opening times of certain shops.

Also way better routing for cyclists than Google maps.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by Vinnl »

biodranik wrote: post #30
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 :)

I think that would be https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/952.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by elcapitan »

Does this support custom map styles? OsmAnd has the option to create custom xml styles for certain use cases (which I find interesting for non-standard uses).

Re: Organic Maps

#67

Post by KoftaBob »

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.

Just a heads up for context:

"In November 2014, Maps.me was acquired by Mail.Ru Group for 542 million Russian rubles"

"On November 2, 2020, Daegu Limited bought Maps.me for 1.56 Billion Russian rubles. Daegu Limited is announced to be part of Parity.com Group"

"Parity.com Group is privately held and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. It was founded by Viktor Mangazeev and Alex Grebnev in 2018. "

https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1323-1473...

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by OfSanguineFire »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #64

Started using Organic Maps during the pandemic, this is the app that weaned me out of Google Maps. At the moment I only really use Google Maps to check opening times of certain shops. Also way better routing for cyclists than Google maps.

You can often find opening times of shops by searching for their own Facebook page instead of using Google Maps. Moreover, you can add business’ opening hours to OpenStreetMap so that other people in future will see the opening hours in Organic Maps and other OSM-based maps. For a programming-savvy crowd like HN, the syntax of OSM’s opening-hours tag is pretty straightforward.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by Vinnl »

Vinnl wrote: post #62
hnben wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

- I miss the ability to make Wikivoyage articles (and their associated POIs) available offline, which is really useful when travelling. - OsmAnd's flags feel more ephemeral, whereas in Organic Maps I'm just adding them as regular bookmarks under "My places", which make them harder to distinguish from bookmarks I want to keep long-term. - Bus lines and stops are pretty useful if you're taking the bus somewhere unfamil…

Oh also, OsmAnd's bicycle routes seem better (shorter/prettier routes)? Though I'm not even sure if Organic Maps's directions are for bicycle - the icon looks like a motorcycle, so they might be motorcycle directions.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by shpx »

fhchl wrote: post #21

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!

I tried both this summer and Mapy.cz is definitely better for hiking. You don't have to zoom in as much to see the trails, hiking trails are marked more clearly with major trails marked in a nice thick red line and it has relief maps (though they can't be downloaded) and the peaks are more clearly labeled along with their height. Also when you zoom out you see a height map instead of just grey for land and blue for water.

Overall it has a nicer attention to detail, for example dashed lines stay in one place as you zoom in/out instead of swimming around and I like the selection of downloaded areas better on Mapy.cz (it has flags next to country names and downloading a new area takes one tap instead of two or three) though it still feels flimsy.

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