A good opportunity to remind everyone that a vastly superior alternative to Organic Maps already exists: Osmand.
Organic Maps is better for “normal” users if you ask me. Osmand is better for pro users but quite clunky.
I would disagree. I have both and use each for different tasks.
OSMAnd is clunky and unintuitive. I have learned it well and have it setup for land navigation type stuff. It’s incredibly good at displaying every last detail of the topography.
Organic Maps is fantastic for city navigation. It’s smooth and quick and ever since the addition of turn-by-turn voice navigation I’m in love. I use the Sherpa Onnx voices and they sound so lifelike.
Interesting perspective. I too have used Osmand (or “OsmAnd” or “OSMAnd” or whatever unpronounceable official name it is) for years. 13 years to be precisely, without a break. I’ve contributed numerous bug reports and feature requests. It’s clunky and unintuitive yes, but I’ve seen worse in other power apps of this kind.
But Osmand is still lacking a couple of features on my personal wishlist, so I naturally gave Organic Maps a decent audition, navigation included. I found that it did only one thing better: rendering of subway lines in dense cities. But this has now been largely fixed by a new setting in Osmand (cleverly hidden, obviously). In everything else, OM just felt to me like a poor man’s alternative to Osmand. With a busy hive of developers earnestly working towards feature parity sometime in the next millennium.
These two projects have the exactly the same objectives. I continue to wish the OM developers would just put aside their egos and help fix whatever it is they don’t like in Osmand. That’s the point of FOSS.
@JubilantJaguar @sic_semper_tyrannis
The developers pronounce it “Osmand” like the fairly common name.
Everyone does. If only they would drop the fussy spelling conceit and just write it like that.
Osmand has a terrible user interface
It is also only open core and hides features behind a paywall.
I don’t think this is true in that sense. You can get the full experience for free by - either building it your self - or simply on FDroid. If you still use Gruesome Playstore, then yes, it is “soft paywalled”.
Or do you mean other features that are not even in the FDroid build? (Which could be some proprietary features.)
You can get the full experience for free by - either building it your self - or simply on FDroid.
I doubt they gift you accumulated hundreds of dollars yearly worth of premium features plus all the stuff hidden behind the paywall just because you didn’t load from the Google Play Store.
