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OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

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Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

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Post by jraph »

pbmonster wrote: post #80
jraph wrote: post #78

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It'd be worth checking if these nodes are actually correctly mapped. For instance, historical wells that are dry, locked, etc should probably not be labeled with amenity=drinking_water. And the missing one should probably be updated to have it. More on this at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Ddrinking_w... In case you don't already know this and for others, you can use the editor at https://osm.org o…

> I'm not 100% sure the CoMaps "Water" category uses amenity:drinking_water, but I have relied on it for this many times during bike tours or hikes without much surprise Is there a way to search for the "amenity:drinking_water" tag directly in OSMand or CoMaps (or any other app)? Because this would probably fix everything. In the end, the apps suffer from the complexity of the underlying data. It probably wasn't a go…

Well, the reality is complex and OSM wants to be precise :-)

Apps shall then make it easy to look for stuff and OSM labels are quite low level, they usually have their specific/internal representation of things. All this to say:

- I doubt CoMaps allows searching for "amenity:drinking_water", at least I haven't found a way to do this.

- That's what the higher level and more user-friendly Water category is supposed to be for. This will limit possibilities, but optimize for the common cases. If the Water category surfaces wrong things or doesn't surface things it should, it's a bug that needs to be fixed.

- You might have better luck with apps for editing OSM for working with OSM labels directly but appart from basic use of Street Complete and Every Door, I haven't explored complex OSM app editors like Vespucci on mobile.

Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

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Post by stevage »

mnmalst wrote: post #79
stevage wrote: post #22

I 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…

You can disable the notification. Took me a while to find this as well. Menu > Plugins > Trip Recording > Settings > Notification (Second to last option)

Thank you!

Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

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Post by mastermage »

jdnnndnxh wrote: post #56
gausswho wrote: post #45

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Have you tried it since the vector map release a few weeks back? I found it greatly improved rendering performance.

Which version does carry this release and does it have to be manually activated? I'm running 5.1.3 and it's rendering is awfully slow

I would like an answer to this aswell. Its realy not rendering fast and i have it redownloaded this week.

Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

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Post by metalman »

That was unsettling, I downloaded OSMand, which determined my location is spite of my dissabling everything possible related to location on my phone, and then wanted another 100megs for my area on top of the 150 for the app, which means that it is worse for time and data than just useing osm, when looking at areas all over the world, which I do daily. I am looking at one(or more) of the newer 2 Tb, ultra mini ssd's that I would then consider building into my franken phone that works as my mobile data wifi hotspot for all of my other devices, as I realy realy want a local copy of OSM, and Wikipedia, all of it.

Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

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Post by maelito »

pbsurf wrote: post #24

I'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.

Why not Maplibre ? I'm curious.

Re: OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps

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Post by stevage »

globular-toast wrote: post #65
lmm wrote: post #44

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Well, the behaviour is great if you're using markers only as short-term working "notes" and always ticking them off when you're done (use favourites for places you want to save longer-term). But yeah the marker feature doesn't explain how it wants you to use it.

I use the markers to loosely transcribe walking routes from books or the web then tick them off during my walk. I was always curious if this is what they're actually designed for, though.

I most commonly use them for marking the location of my car or campsite when going bushwalking and wanting to be certain I can find them again. Also sometimes for marking annotations I want to add to OpenStreetMap later...
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