Related but annoying question. What are you all using for public lands access and land ownership? This is a similar problem where the paid/closed apps (OnX et al) have very good data but serious issues for obvious reasons.
OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
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Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#22I use Osmand a lot. It work well, but I dearly wish they'd improve some UX issues.
I always seem to have the map telling me how far it is to some temporary marker I placed months ago that I can't easily work out how to remove.
Also any time I do navigation, the Trip Recording plugin pops up as a sticky system notification even when I haven't enabled trip recording.
But the offline navigation is a killer feature, and following custom GPX's.
Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#23And now we have CoMaps [1], an Organic Maps fork. I have both OSMAnd and CoMaps installed and started with OSMand, but I see myself reaching for CoMaps exclusively now. Both apps are very good. [1] https://www.comaps.app/
I am sympathetic to the motivation for forking CoMaps, but their website, aside from a few vague statements, does not give me any reassurance that they are better governed. Who are these people (names)? How are they incorporated, and where? How are donations spent? How is the development direction decided? Until these points are clarified, I am hesitant to switch to CoMaps.
Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#24I've been building https://github.com/styluslabs/maps with support for 3D terrain, custom layers, and plugins for search and routing.
Vector tiles are generated and served on-demand by https://github.com/styluslabs/geodesk-tiles so there's no need to download an entire country or region first.
Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#25An important thing to mention is that OSMAnd has multiple (somewhat confusing) paid tiers. Since its FOSS you can presumably just compile it yourself if you wanted to bypass the paywall (the ethics of this are left as an exercise for the reader). However, Android Auto support is behind the paywall and Android Auto only works with apps downloaded from the play store. OSMAnd definitely has more features (especially wit…
I frankly don't see any trouble in paying for open-source software once . I see it as a way to support the development. I often buy "premium" versions even if they add nothing on top of the OSS version. As of OSMAnd, $40 might look like a steep price even for a lifetime unlimited license, but they regularly run sales where the same costs $25.
I’m pretty sure I’ve spent more than $40 on paper road atlases, and last time I updated the offline maps on my Toyota it cost me a $220 for the SD card from OEM, so a lifetime license is a steal.
Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#26One of the best map apps I saw is Mapy.com -- same OSM database, but works way smoother and looks better than OsmAnd. Less features, of course, but 99% of time I just need to see the map.
They have a really nice feature I haven’t seen elsewhere to find a circular walking/cycling/ski route of a certain length. Useful to get ideas on where to go if you have some time for a walk or ride in an area you’re not entirely familiar with.
Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#27I couldn’t make heads or tails of how to navigate with OSMAnd until thumbing through GitHub issues and finding out about https://opensupermaps.com/ which, after importing a few gigabytes of text files, allows general search of street addresses - not a great learning curve for adoption!
What I’d really like to do is copy the old school car GPS interface of, select state, select city, select street, house number, where at each stage it narrows down the list of possibilities so you only have to type 3 or 4 letters before auto completion. If there’s any pull request I would make it would be to build that out using the open super maps database
Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#28I've been building https://github.com/styluslabs/maps with support for 3D terrain, custom layers, and plugins for search and routing. Vector tiles are generated and served on-demand by https://github.com/styluslabs/geodesk-tiles so there's no need to download an entire country or region first.
Wow the readme looks very impressive, would love to try this on my next off grid trek
Is it just you building it, is there a business behind it?
Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#29The only reason I have OSMAnd installed along with OrgMaps is for those occasions when I want to find water fountains nearby, since you can filter by object type
Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
#30And now we have CoMaps [1], an Organic Maps fork. I have both OSMAnd and CoMaps installed and started with OSMand, but I see myself reaching for CoMaps exclusively now. Both apps are very good. [1] https://www.comaps.app/
I am sympathetic to the motivation for forking CoMaps, but their website, aside from a few vague statements, does not give me any reassurance that they are better governed. Who are these people (names)? How are they incorporated, and where? How are donations spent? How is the development direction decided? Until these points are clarified, I am hesitant to switch to CoMaps.
From what I can gather, they are not yet incorporated and they are working through organizational questions in [1] and the issues thereof. The `ACCOUNTS.md` file there gives an idea about the main people behind the project and the donation page on Open Collective [2] also documents team members and how they spend those donations.
[1]: https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance [2]: https://opencollective.com/comaps