Is there a good Android app for using offline OpenStreetMap maps? My primary goal is to have maps that work when I have no connectivity. I’d like to download the entire US (or perhaps another country if I am traveling) and be able to navigate hiking trails where no cell service exists.
- bbbhltz ( @bbbhltz@beehaw.org ) English25•11 months ago
OSMAnd and Organic Maps
I’m partial to the former and I’ve noticed, specifically while hiking, that it is better than GMaps for navigating and finding paths.
Both of these apps are meant to be used offline.
- nottheengineer ( @nottheengineer@feddit.de ) English2•11 months ago
I wish there was a way to automatically contribute traffic data to get the same level of car navigation that google maps offers. I find myself going back to Gmaps for that because are a lot of road closures on my way to work right now and the fastest route changes daily.
- desoter ( @desoter@feddit.it ) English5•11 months ago
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android also lists offline support
- alex [they, il] ( @alex@jlai.lu ) English4•11 months ago
OSMAnd does just that, I love it.
EDIT: On Google Play, you get the premium version for free if you make contributions to OSM once in a while. On F-Droid, you get the premium version, for free.
- scorpionix ( @scorpionix@feddit.de ) English1•11 months ago
you’ll get the paid version for free if you make contributions to OSM once in a while
How does that work?
- Mannivu ( @Mannivu@feddit.it ) English4•11 months ago
If you are an active OSMer you can activate the “OSM edits” plugins, connect it with your OSM account and you can get OsmAnd live for free every month (see official guide).
- InsertUser ( @InsertUser@en.osm.town ) 0•11 months ago
@Mannivu @scorpionix the Live updates are hourly not once a month.
- Mannivu ( @Mannivu@feddit.it ) English2•11 months ago
I know, but the user contributions to get the Live subscription are checked every month.
- alex [they, il] ( @alex@jlai.lu ) English3•11 months ago
It doesn’t, I’m sorry. I just checked and I was wrong - on Google Play, you get the premium version for free if you make contributions to OSM once in a while. On F-Droid, you get the premium version, for free.
- xigoi ( @xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•11 months ago
It doesn’t, the paid version is completely free on F-Droid.
- ggnoredo ( @ggnoredo@lemm.ee ) English4•11 months ago
Magic earth
- DangerMouse ( @DangerMouse@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
OSMAnd is very good, with a lot of features, but lately I have been using Organic Maps. It has fewer features but is SO MUCH FASTER when rendering maps.
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
I still mainly use Osmand but it’s pathfinding is completely bonkers sometimes (like when you need to go down a street (on foot) it instead takes a right into another street, then a left and left again, so you would walking in a square when you could just go straight ahead). It’s super obvious most of the times but I don’t know if I would trust it when I go somewhere by car (which I never do so I don’t care __).
- DangerMouse ( @DangerMouse@lemm.ee ) English3•11 months ago
One thing I like about Osmand for driving is that it tells you which lane(s) you should to be in for the next turn/junction/roundabout. It’s especially useful for large junctions and/or in busy traffic. I’ve had it do the “detour route” that you talk about, but it’s never been anything major like a complete square that’s lead to wasting time.