Organic maps (and now comaps) have a much better rendering engine. It’s much faster, while also being much more legible. It’s routing engine is also faster.
OsmAnd does have the upper hand when it wcomes to features though. I have both and use OsmaAnd when I need to export a route to GPX or see relief.
OM and for now CoMaps are faster and easier to learn. For most people. With OSMand configurations are endless and people tend to get lost in them.
Also the map data of OM is highly filtered OSM data.
Meaning smaller files and a faster app.
The downside is less features, but as always … if you dont need the absent features … its a plus.
Now whats interesting how they both will keep it that way. My theory is when they listen to EVERY wish from random users (with other persona and user stories) they eventually become like OSMand too.
For me its the android auto compatibility. OSM won’t (and probably shouldnt) jump through the google hoops to do so. It’s at least nice to have a more open option for an otherwise very proprietary ecosystem. Even though organic maps has room to improve
My Organic Maps doesn’t have traffic (or doesn’t for my area). I can’t see anything about it online either, except discussions about how it could be implemented.
Where do you find the traffic info? Even if zoomed in to New York I see nothing.
Thanks for asking i’ve been wondering myself actually. I looked it up and organic maps doesn’t actually do traffic, although magic earth does (another foss map app that uses osm) It says it’s just crowdsourced from the general public who uses magic earth (in an anonimous way, I guess there are enough magic earth uses for it to work since Some people say it works really well. (although others say it doesn’t you should probably try it for yourself.)
On another note that I also found from my research just then, traffic knowing apps don’t actually improve travel times but they do make previously congested places more congested.
sources:
@pineapple I use Waze and the traffic info are very very usefull, especially when there are closed road or accidents. I know, it’s Waze and I’d love to be able to use OsmAnd (which I use for other purposes), but the traffic info that has Waze is the best so far (at least where I live)
What was the benefit of Organic Maps over OsmAnd or other options? I never understood why Organic Maps was getting so much traction.
Organic maps (and now comaps) have a much better rendering engine. It’s much faster, while also being much more legible. It’s routing engine is also faster.
OsmAnd does have the upper hand when it wcomes to features though. I have both and use OsmaAnd when I need to export a route to GPX or see relief.
I prefer the simple interface of organic maps
OM and for now CoMaps are faster and easier to learn. For most people. With OSMand configurations are endless and people tend to get lost in them. Also the map data of OM is highly filtered OSM data. Meaning smaller files and a faster app.
The downside is less features, but as always … if you dont need the absent features … its a plus.
Now whats interesting how they both will keep it that way. My theory is when they listen to EVERY wish from random users (with other persona and user stories) they eventually become like OSMand too.
For me its the android auto compatibility. OSM won’t (and probably shouldnt) jump through the google hoops to do so. It’s at least nice to have a more open option for an otherwise very proprietary ecosystem. Even though organic maps has room to improve
Organic maps has traffic, osmand doesn’t. I feel osmand is better in pretty much every other situation but organic maps has traffic.
My Organic Maps doesn’t have traffic (or doesn’t for my area). I can’t see anything about it online either, except discussions about how it could be implemented.
Where do you find the traffic info? Even if zoomed in to New York I see nothing.
@pineapple @lewdian69 does it have traffic? Who provides that data?
Thanks for asking i’ve been wondering myself actually. I looked it up and organic maps doesn’t actually do traffic, although magic earth does (another foss map app that uses osm) It says it’s just crowdsourced from the general public who uses magic earth (in an anonimous way, I guess there are enough magic earth uses for it to work since Some people say it works really well. (although others say it doesn’t you should probably try it for yourself.)
On another note that I also found from my research just then, traffic knowing apps don’t actually improve travel times but they do make previously congested places more congested. sources:
source 1
source 2
source 3
Magic Earth is proprietary, not FOSS.
@pineapple I use Waze and the traffic info are very very usefull, especially when there are closed road or accidents. I know, it’s Waze and I’d love to be able to use OsmAnd (which I use for other purposes), but the traffic info that has Waze is the best so far (at least where I live)