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Re: Organic Maps

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

mcv wrote: post #178
eCa wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does https://cycle.travel/map/ perform routing-wise in Amsterdam? (Unaffiliated happy user.)

Maybe slightly better, but still not great. It's skipping the eastern part of the Sarphatistraat. Also it struggles with street names and encourages you to only type a town, which isn't very useful. I like that it allows you to choose between paved, gravel or any. Although gravel may still be too limited for some; mountainbikers like dirt tracks, and I've had Google Maps send me through loose sand that would probably…

> Also it struggles with street names and encourages you to only type a town, which isn't very useful.

Oh, good spot. Fixed. OSM geocoding is better than it used to be - I used to just say "town" because streetnames were partial, but they're pretty good now.

If you have a start and endpoint that should use Sarphatistraat but don't, I'm all ears. (It's my site!)

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by fuzzy2 »

biodranik wrote: post #172
fuzzy2 wrote: post #7

Organic Maps is super awesome. The routing feature is really good, too. It even works on Apple CarPlay! There are some glitches to be aware of though: Routing across region borders is often broken. Also, a warning about OSM in general: Do not blindly trust it. Map data can be very out of date in some places, especially on remote-ish hiking trails.

Please make sure that you have up-to-date app and maps data, and tell us where you see cross-border routing issues. There's an easy way to report it from the app using "Report a bug" button in the About dialog.

IIRC, that was over a year ago near Oberstdorf, at the border between Austria and Germany. You could not get an on-foot route from the Kanzelwand Bergstation[1] to Fellhorn[2]. The hiking path follows the border closely, crossing it multiple times. That location seems to work fine now.

I’ll make sure to report it in the future!

[1]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/252814925 [2]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/276271393

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by Vinnl »

rob74 wrote: post #134

I'm currently using OSMAnd, which is pretty powerful, but also feels a bit overloaded UI-wise - does anyone have any experience on how Organic Maps compares to it? Sounds like it could be a worthwile alternative. Especially the claim "go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge" sounds interesting - I have the feeling that OSMAnd actually increases battery usage, because all rendering has to be done client-side…

> I'm currently using OSMAnd, which is pretty powerful, but also feels a bit overloaded UI-wise - does anyone have any experience on how Organic Maps compares to it?

It's less powerful, but not overloaded UI-wise.

(Where "powerful" means things like travel guides and bus lines, but also things like being able to set up different profiles with the ability to customise the icon indicating your position per profile.)

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by gorbypark »

ijustlovemath wrote: post #191
gorbypark wrote: post #160

I use Organic Maps for hiking specifically because it's not a "hiking app". There are way too many apps out there that expect you to just hike a trail that someone else has already hiked. Want to combine intersecting trails? You're out of luck. Want to use a trail you didn't explicitly pre-download without a data connection? You're out of luck But with Organic Maps, I find it has all the trails (at least on two separ…

You can tell the grade of a trail by doing Route To / Route From and selecting the walking option. After computing the route it shows you a fairly accurate elevation profile, as well as the length and total elevation gains/losses. If you're using imperial units, you can also quickly estimate difficulty by doing the following: - take the total elevation change, in hundreds of feet, eg 900ft = 9 * 100ft - take the tota…

The elevation profile is great, for sure, but I meant more like...difficulty, rather than grade? I don't know the exact word to use, but sometimes you have well used, well marked trails and other times you have a "trail" that maybe gets used a few times a year and is more like a choose your own adventure with a rock cairn or two every couple hundred meters if you are lucky.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by curionymous »

I've used organicmaps for a while. but it needs a way to sync bookmarks. I bookmark places like a good restaurant, parking places, fuel stations, stores, roadside attractions to places I've been to. But without a cloud sync(preferably self-hosted nextcloud), I always fear I'm going to lose my bookmarks. There was another open-source maps.me fork before Organic maps and it lost maps/bookmarks with certain updates and became abandoned.[1]

With file access limitation with recent android versions, I can't just use foldersync or syncthing on the bookmarks.

[1]https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/-/issues/168

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by cvak »

aembleton wrote: post #155
mcv wrote: post #100

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I've had it for a while, but I don't use it nearly enough. I still rely on Google Maps for most things, until Google Maps lets me down. Which it does mostly when I'm on vacation. Although now that I think about it, Google Maps lets me down on vacation because I'm in unfamiliar territory and I have no idea how to correct for the mistakes it makes. When I'm at home (in Amsterdam) it makes plenty of mistakes too, but I'…

Worth trying out mapy.cz app for cycling. It uses OSM data; and I find it works well in the UK, I've never tried it in the Netherlands though. It has good route finding, but unfortunatelly you can't load in a GPX route: https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?mobilepromo=1&x=15.6252330&y=49....

there is import GPX feature when you sign in, I use it quite often.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by orbital-decay »

Vinnl wrote: post #192
orbital-decay wrote: post #150

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Thanks for that! Editing the map on a bike can be a hassle though. I tried many options and came to conclusion that a 360° camera on the helmet and a physical Bluetooth button to take audio notes is the easiest possible setup.

If you both don't know about StreetComplete yet, you should check it out: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/#readme

Yeah I'm often using StreetComplete when walking in a city, but on a bike any operation with the phone involves stopping and switching the context. Besides, SC is intended to fill the missing or fix existing data, and sometimes I need more than that (adding/fixing paths and objects, for example). So I just record an audio note while passing by something, and later on I import the video/timelapse and edit it on my computer, which is much faster than doing that while cycling.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by matkoniecz »

biodranik wrote: post #171
prometheon1 wrote: post #78

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Do you use the search functionality a lot, and is it giving you the results you want? And if so, do you have any tips on how to write search queries? I love Organic Maps, but when I try to search, I think I find what I'm looking for about 1 out of 5 times.

Can you please send us more details about non-working search queries at support [at] organicmaps.app (or report it on our Github), considering that addresses or POIs that you're searching for are _present_ on osm.org ?

reported https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/5890 for now

Edit: also https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/5891

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