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Re: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

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Post by troyvit »

danhor wrote: post #175
karussell wrote: post #81

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OSMAnd and OrganicMaps both have the limitation (and big advantage) of functioning offline by default. The routing will be much more powerful (with alternatives on by default) and faster if you enable an online routing service. For OSMAnd this is possible with e.g. GraphHopper: https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2024/02/27/osmand-with-grap... The same is true for address search. If you have an online address search lik…

At least for bycicle routing, Brouter also runs offline and is much more performant than both OSMAnd and OrganicMaps (and can be integrated into OSMAnd). To me it feels like OSMAnd heavily prioritizes feature develompent over performance, which is fair enough but still annoying.

And their choices in features they wish to develop confuses. 50% of the time I still have to translate an address into GPS coordinates before I can find a place, and yet I have an OBD-II plugin that allows me to monitor my car's performance?

Re: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

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Post by benrutter »

agile-gift0262 wrote: post #87
kmarc wrote: post #32

Sad to see the current state of mobile OSM-based apps. Maps.me becoming OrganicMaps, now this. Lot of development effort, great work going into it, but somehow, after years, the apps don't feel more user-friendly. I was pushing hard to replace Google Maps, but eventually, I gave up. OsmAnd is great if you need that "swiss army knife of OSM apps" on your phone, but I rarely do. Same with Maps.me/Organic Maps, try to s…

Another alternative to mapy.com you could try is Here WeGo. I prefer it to any other Google Maps alternative I have tried. And there are some things, like the car navigation, that I prefer on it over Google Maps. I don't find their privacy policy creepy, and the most creepy parts are opt-in and the toggle clearly explains what you'd be opting into and what feature you are missing out on by not opting in. Mapy's priva…

Plus one for everything you said! I've been using WeGo in place of Google maps for a good few months and it's been an easy drop in swap without any compromises for me.

It would be immense for an open source project to exist, but I'll happily settle for a non-google one.

Re: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

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Post by _fat_santa »

socalgal2 wrote: post #190
_fat_santa wrote: post #83

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> (and big advantage) of functioning offline by default. I don't know about others but that's the main reason I use it. My day to day mapping app is still Google Maps but I always keep a copy of Organic Maps with downloaded maps of wherever I'm going as a backup. While I do not use it often, it's gotten me out of a couple of sticky situations while camping and roadtripping. Organic Maps (and other offline mapping pro…

I know this probably doesn't solve the same issue, but google maps has a offline feature. Click your profile picture (on mobile), pick offline maps, ....

It has a huge limitation in that it only allows you to pick a certain area to download and those maps "expire" after a period of time. The key advantage that Organic Maps (and other OSM providers) has is that I can download an entire state, province or even country and that data will never "expire".

Re: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

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Post by gitaarik »

soperj wrote: post #105
saubeidl wrote: post #28

Again? Wasn't the whole thing about Organic Maps to be a community-led fork of maps.me? So now we're at a fork of a fork?

Neovim is a fork of VIM which was a fork of Stevie which was a fork of vi which was a fork of ed, and it's the piece of software I use probably more than anything.

Stevie?

Re: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

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Post by bondarchuk »

palata wrote: post #62
bondarchuk wrote: post #22

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You cannot use OSM by itself for gps navigation on your phone, right?

OSM is the database containing all the data. Navigation is not exactly "data" that is stored in a database, it's the result of computing a path between two locations based on the data stored in OSM. Maybe a comparison would be this: if you want to hike somewhere the "old school" way, with a compass and a paper map. You will buy a paper map made by someone else, you will localise yourself on this map, and then you wil…

Thanks for the effort but I already understood all of that perfectly fine tbh :p

Re: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

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Post by soperj »

andrewshadura wrote: post #199
soperj wrote: post #105

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Neovim is a fork of VIM which was a fork of Stevie which was a fork of vi which was a fork of ed, and it's the piece of software I use probably more than anything.

Vim was not a fork, neither were other things on your list apart from neovim.

How not? it literally took the source from Stevie and applied changes to it.

Re: A community-led fork of Organic Maps

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Post by soperj »

gitaarik wrote: post #214
soperj wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neovim is a fork of VIM which was a fork of Stevie which was a fork of vi which was a fork of ed, and it's the piece of software I use probably more than anything.

Stevie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_(text_editor)
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