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OsmAnd 5.0 (Android) | OsmAnd (osmand.net)
submitted 10 months ago by testman@lemmy.ml to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

OsmAnd is a genuinely amazing app that I have been using for literally 14 years. For everything other than business information, it's clearly the best in class. Far better than the new kid on the FOSS block Organic Maps, let alone certain commercial apps that shall remain nameless. It's always a surprise to me how few normies have even heard of OsmAnd. Possibly not helped by the awkward semi-pronouncable name.

I'm just bothered by one thing: the ongoing opacity about OsmAnd's business model. They provide no explanations at all, despite the slick site and what appears to be an impressive staff list. They need to be more transparent about who's paying for all this and how.

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Osmand isn't cheap to buy and a lot of people pay for it. Where else do you think their money comes from?

Osmand is slow and too complex on my pixel 9, yet I still use it

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Osmand is slow

Yeah, rendering speed is atrocious. Organic Map renders much smoother.

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But only on android ... It's blazingly fast on ios

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The submission's topic is the Android version, though.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried the "new" OpenGL renderer? It fares much better for me. (Actually, maybe it's the default now?)

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 10 months ago

@balsoft

It's faster, but still incredibly slow.

@woelkchen

[–] bonjour@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think I bought it for some 5€ some years ago, osmand+ that is. I thought that was a bargain really. I've been using the fdroid one now for a long time, I wanted to donate some more money but they seemed to accept bitcoin only. I'll have a look if that changed.

Osmand rules.

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@bonjour
I think it was something like £2 when I bought it. Now it's £39.99⁉️

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8483587772816822023

They also have a €3/month subscription for 'hourly' map updates (and some cloud sync to compensate for Android getting worse).

https://osmand.net/docs/user/purchases/android

But is it getting very slow these days. Especially with hourly updates turned on.

@enemenemu

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Wdym with the hourly updates?

I don't have that on anymore, it's not really faster than before

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It's FOSS and available free on F-Droid. Small app transactions are not paying for that staff list.

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Osmand is slow and too complex on my pixel 9, yet I still use it

Stock ROM or possibly GrapheneOS?

[–] przmk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's slow in general, they're not using vector maps like organic maps do. I love what OsmAnd does but it's definitely slower to render and more sluggish to navigate than other maps on my FairPhone 5.

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 10 months ago

@przmk
They're both vector based. Purely from usage it feels like OsmAnd is rerendering everything from scratch every time with little caching. If you pan away and pan back it takes effectively the same amount of time to recreate the previously rendered view as a fresh view. This time seems to increase with addition obfs for "live" updates etc.
When Organic Maps updates slowly it tends to feel like vector tiles "falling back" to lower zoom until more detail is retrieved.
@goldfndr

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, graphene

[–] lokjo@mapstodon.space 3 points 10 months ago

@JubilantJaguar @testman

Hope we're not bothering here but if you're looking for more maps just take a look at our map Lokjo.

It doesn't have offline maps or an app, but does show all shops at once, and has the navigation etc.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Yay! Now to wait while it trickles down to F-Droid...

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When does this version 5 release on F-Droid?

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@Sir_Kevin
The F-droid version is unofficial so they're unlikely to have an answer to that.

@testman

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well this version is hitting me up for money to download open street maps regions, which itself is a community driven foss project. I'll stick with the version that supports F-Droid and doesn't charge me for my own content.

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 2 points 10 months ago

@Sir_Kevin if it's your own data you probably qualify for the contributors program if you don't want to help fund development.

@openstreetmap

[–] Tommie@infosec.exchange 1 points 10 months ago

@Sir_Kevin
After the release of a new OsmAnd main version, it usually takes at least a few weeks, but sometimes several months, until it appears on F-Droid