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It is definitely resource intensive, but not as much as you would expect. Especially considering the fact that the route only gets calculated once and most modern phones are pretty fast, it won’t really drain your battery.
Context: just benchmarked it with across-the-US routes and it seems fine
While I don't use Organic Maps as my daily driver because there is no traffic data, it has been invaluable to have on my phone. It is one of the best offline and trail maps I've used.
That's a much requested feature. With imho two main challenges: 1. Much traffic data is private / requires licensing, however some countries have reasonable public data. For example the TraffXML ( https://gitlab.com/traffxml ) project has some. 2. The project is free to use, but also volunteer driven. It requires setting up a privacy preserving "live data" infrastructure. If you think this is a nice challenge and you…
While I don't use Organic Maps as my daily driver because there is no traffic data, it has been invaluable to have on my phone. It is one of the best offline and trail maps I've used.
Agreed. I can’t believe how it’s better than any other hiking app (particularly free ones but I tried some non free ones too), but it is. For me the winning feature is the UX around dropping a pin and routing to it via trails just works and is very easy, and includes elevation gain etc. Too many hiking apps require you to navigate along fixed trails in their hike database.
Off-topic to the public transit news, but: I've enjoyed Organic Maps for years, but it seems they made a change within the past year (maybe 3-4 months ago) that slowed everything down. Anyone know what happened? It used to be very responsive, but now one a new area, it can take second or two to update.
While I don't use Organic Maps as my daily driver because there is no traffic data, it has been invaluable to have on my phone. It is one of the best offline and trail maps I've used.
That's a much requested feature. With imho two main challenges: 1. Much traffic data is private / requires licensing, however some countries have reasonable public data. For example the TraffXML ( https://gitlab.com/traffxml ) project has some. 2. The project is free to use, but also volunteer driven. It requires setting up a privacy preserving "live data" infrastructure. If you think this is a nice challenge and you…
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That's a much requested feature. With imho two main challenges: 1. Much traffic data is private / requires licensing, however some countries have reasonable public data. For example the TraffXML ( https://gitlab.com/traffxml ) project has some. 2. The project is free to use, but also volunteer driven. It requires setting up a privacy preserving "live data" infrastructure. If you think this is a nice challenge and you…
I like the idea of Organic Maps in general, but using it in Hong Kong is awkward; not only because in many cases it uses Pinyin Mandarin place labels (which locals never use) but also because requires me to download 200+ MB of “China Guangdong”—a large but, critically, distinct in every de jure and de facto sense place beyond a border restriction with no free travel (considering in the case of, say, Kaliningrad, with…