For the longest time I used Organic Maps and it was fine but it was very very bare bones. I gave OsmAnd a shot again which I did not like before as I found it very confusing and holy shit I was wrong. OsmAnd is amazing and is customizable to the brim. I love it
I don’t think this is too unpopular. If you want features go to Osmand, if you like simplicity go for Organic maps.
For me the navigation did not work as well in Organic maps, the voice instructions were quite bare bones and did not work with the screen off, so I will keep using Osmand.
OM now works with the screen off and I’ll be making the voice instructions better than OsmAnd very shortly just fyi
Thanks! Its great that its developed in that way. Can I ask what you plan to improve over Osmands voice instructions?
Also should include easy import of Osmand places so users can switch more easily, but maybe thats already implemented or not possible due to file formats, I didn’t check.
I use both
If you want a map swiss army knife, OsmAnd is very very good. If you don’t, then yeah it’s way too complex for what should be basic tasks. And developers refuse to do stuff like allow US-style address order search (requiring reverse order only)
and their stance on “North isnt up” is legendary
There is no good, only “good for”.
OsmAnd and Organic Maps are both tools to solve different problems in a different way. For some usecases and users, one will be better then the other.
But: OsmAnd also improved their UX a lot in the past few years, so that helps!
As a mapper, I prefer Osmand; as a user, OM. Osmand+ is so feature complete and extensible that I’ve used it in so many different ways, even to plan my navigation in the sea. Whereas OM is my go to app to generate routes to walk, something Osmand also does great.
About a year ago I found Osmand near unusable. Maybe I should try it again. I currently use Organic Maps and it’s pretty good, though it’s missing a few basic features that are probably on a todo list. Also, some of its data is wrong. I expect Osmand uses the same wrong data. Unfortunately last time I hit an error, I had no internet, but will try again next time I’m there.
