OsmAnd, best downloaded from Fdroid. It has profiles for driving and hiking so you can use it for both with different settings.
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.
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https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)
https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.
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I think Organic Maps is the best.
Thank you. I am very much in favor of fully open projects, so I am giving this one a try first. I found there is a desktop version as well, but it does not detect the GPS dongle plugged into my linux computer, and crashes if I try to search my own address. I can put in a 1, but when I put in the second digit, the program crashes. Routing seems to work fine on the android app though.
Yeah I think the desktop app is more of a developer tool. The main apps are the Android and iOS apps.
OsmAnd was specifically designed for offline use, downloads the maps and runs the routing all offline. Can do both online as well but by default after download it's all offline
Magic earth
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.
you’ll get the paid version for free if you make contributions to OSM once in a while
How does that work?
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.
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).
@Mannivu @scorpionix the Live updates are hourly not once a month.
I know, but the user contributions to get the Live subscription are checked every month.
It doesn't, the paid version is completely free on F-Droid.
Osmand to my knowledge Limits the number of offline maps you get for free, mapy.cz does not. In mapy.cz you also get the terrain for free.
mapy.cz is built by a company which loves tracking and advertisements. OsmAnd doesn't limit you if you use the OsmAnd+ version, which is paid on the Play $tore but free on F-Droid. There are also Organic Maps, which are completely free.
The droid page says that OsmAnd tracks and reports your activity. Magic Earth downloaded from playstore or Organic Maps are better privacy respecting choices.
Hey, your links are incorrect. It should be https://mapy.cz (single P) instead of having two P's - which link to a lingerie website... Can you edit your post?
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.