Hands-down,#Osmand is my personal favorite mapping app: feature-rich, reliable, flexible, uses #OpenStreetMap data.

For so long , people have been saing that the interface needs to be modernized, and their most recent user survey highlights that:

https://osmand.net/blog/survey-26

I am hopeful that they're finally going to do something about it. 🤞

Weiß jemand, wie man die 3D-Gebäude-Funktion der #OSMand+ App unter #Android (in der #FDroid-Edition) zum Laufen kriegt? Oder kann die ausschließlich über den Google Play Store aktiviert werden? 🤔

Darum geht's: https://osmand.net/de/docs/user/map/vector-maps/#3d-buildings

… und hier https://osmand.net/de/docs/user/purchases/android#free-and-paid-features wird aufgeführt, dass die Funktion für OSMand+ (also die „Plus“-Version über F-Droid) inkludiert ist.

In der ersten Märzhälfte hat #OsmAnd eine Umfrage durchgeführt, um besser zu verstehen, wie die Nutzer OsmAnd verwenden und was sie sich davon versprechen.

In diesem Beitrag werden einige der wichtigsten Themen vorgestellt, die sich durch alle fünf Umfragen zogen.

osmand.net/de/blog/survey-26/

It's sad that I can't find a proper #Google #Maps replacement.

#OrganicMaps: The best one by far, but not having multiple route options is a deal-breaker for me.

#OsmAnd: I appreciate their effort, but not only is the UI/UX a little lacking, but also, with all due respect, I've never seen such a useless "search" function before, it's very hard to find anything. I search for a city, and it responds, "Oh, you mean the street named 'X,' which is in another state?" No, I mean the fucking city.

For some upcoming outdoor adventures I'm currently looking for a map solution with some special requirements that seem rather rare or not existent at all:

– Download (complete) OSM data for small area, let's say 4 to 9 km². I understand that's difficult because of how OSM data downloads are bundled, but I don't mind downloading the entire region, as long as the data is "complete" (not stripped of information that some provider deemed unimportant - CoMaps map downloads for example apparently don't include structures outside of cities).

– Download satellite imagery tiles for the given area for offline use. That's probably difficult cause providers want money for their satellite stuff, however OSMAnd for example can display Microsoft Earth imagery as over/underlay for free, so I guess those should be cacheable somehow. As mentioned above it's be for a rather small predefined area.

– Display both OSM map and satellite imagery at the same time like OSMAnd does with the over/underlay, with configurable opacity for the layers.

– This one's tricky: possiblity to (freehand) draw on the map (and obviously having my sketches pan/zoom along with the map when moving around).

– Put markers on the map with notes and have the notes displayed on the map itself, not just the marker that you gotta tap to have the note pop up.

OSMAnd comes pretty close, but doesn't download/cache satellite imagery for offline use, markers are a bit cumbersome for a quick note and it doesn't support drawing on the map.

I'm mostly looking for an Android app, however I'm not opposed to buying a dedicated GPS device if it does everything above. Right now the best solution I can think of is configuring an OSM map with all the desired information, print it out and just draw on the paper map, with the obvious downside that it doesn't show my position and also doesn't zoom well.

Any suggestions welcome!

#android #maps #outdoor #openstreetmap #osm #osmand #comaps

I'm not a software developer, so this is a real question:

Can it really be so hard for maps apps like @CoMaps, @organicmaps, and #OSMand and #MapsMe etc to agree on a common link format when sharing locations?