I liked using it but 15€/year for navigation is too much for me. I’m going to stick to osmand now. At least osmand is open source. It has roughly the same features. It’s just not that beautiful. I paid for osmand btw. What’s your alternative?
Edit: And I like paying for osmand because it is open source.
In case anyone else out there is unaware, the “paid” tier for Osmand is unlockable for free to OSM contributors, meaning if you make a habit of contributing edits to OSM, then all you’d have to do is link to your OSM account within Osmand settings. Not to dissuade anyone from contributing financially, just sayin’ b/c I think that is a nice little perk for editors from the Osmand team.
I personally prefer CoMaps (forked from Organic Maps), the UI is a little more intuitive to me than Osmand.
Its also free if you get it on fdroid.
Thanks for highlighting it.i also use the fdroid version. It didn’t stop me from buying and donating and contributing heavily. It’s really handy to add small changes or a note without investing a lot of time like with SC
“It’s not foss but something something privacy…” Proprietary software, not even once.
CoMaps
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I mean it’s open source, so you can help out. And there’s no standard for publishing public transport time tables, so it is an incredibly hard task to stay on top of updates from even a single country’s bus and train companies.
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Pretty much the entire OSM sphere is developed and populated by volunteers. And they you come along and say they should take their heads out of their ass. Yes, the burden is on the users, because the developers are users themselves. No, not everyone has programming skills, but even nontechnical people can still contribute to the dataset with bus station locations and bus routes.
It’s completely okay to not use a piece of software, and if you have some feedback to give that might sway you, great! But don’t insult the developers because they have limited time and resources.
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Are you’re doing it again. Stop the insulting, and ask for a feature like a normal person and someone is a lot more likely to be encouraged to work on it.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I think I used an apk from way before and now after updating it I see their new beautiful UI. Pretty nice.
I’m also all for OSS, but in this case, for me, there’s no OSS alternative for navigation. Both CoMaps and OsmAnd can be used for it, but not tailored to do it.
As a frequent and satisfied user, I’m happy to contribute to their development. 15 EUR annually doesn’t seem far fetched, but you can actually get the Premium package on their site for 6 EUR (link to the pricing page). That’s like 3-4 can of beers kind of money.
Thanks!
6€ per year would be reasonable for me. I’m just a casual user. I may need it only once every other month.
That’s nice to read, happy you found a solution fitting for you. Also happy to read you’d like to contribute, sometimes I get mixed feedback when it’s about giving back somehow to these devs.
I’ll buy it. I have used it oftentimes in the past. I see it as a support for what I already got instead of what I am about to get. I’ll see how it goes in a year.
I signed up to the subscription but have now cancelled, a lot of the features I used are just broken now, I would have happily paid for the old app, but their update is not worth anything.
Not used it yet with the subscription, so I would be curious to hear what features are not working.
I could no longer force dark mode, every time I started navigation it would switch from dark to light.
It kept using some default voice instead of what I had set.
Wasn’t honouring the units set, kept using meters instead of yards.
GPS speed kept jumping all over the place, other apps were fine on the same drive so not an issue with GPS in general.
Also a lot of these settings seemed to have been reset from what I had set I the previous version of the app.
They even seem to have regional pricing (or at least 1 year costs €3.5 in Colombia). Pretty nice deal IMO
Nice. So is €3.5 around 3-4 cans of beer in Colombia?
€3.5 is more like 4-6
I like Organic Maps. UI is clear and simple-ish to use.
However, it lacks quite a lot compared to the (cluttered UI of) OSMand.
Edit: great mentality there. You could at least tell me the pros of your favorite solution and the cons of organic map before Downvoting me.
Organic maps is shit.
Use CoMaps instead.
+1 for CoMaps
Why? Is nefarious activity really occuring? It looks like from the linked article, small dev teams are more efficient. There is a scalability issue, governance, inclusion versus efficiency. I can understand in theory why they forked (and I’m switching to comaps), but has organic maps actually done anything bad? Can someone clarify? Is this nonsense what happened with maps.me?
I would guess this is why it’s referred to as shit: https://menafn.com/1109612598/Organic-Maps-Fork-Spurs-Governance-Debate
Ah, thank you for this article !
Indeed, not a good project governance and not an project I should recommend.
Uninstalled Organic Maps, and I will try CoMaps (or default back to OSMand)
Anyone else wanting to move to CoMaps but procrastinating because they’d have to go about downloading the maps again?
I switched to organic maps too.
Also, until comaps have bike layer I am not switching
Don’t worry. Sounds like she’s replying to the wrong comment
It seems that version 2025122009 still works for the time being.
Sad to hear. I’ve used it for years. There’s nothing that really replaces it, IMO. But, I haven’t been liking the direction it was going in for some time now, so I’m not that surprised.
Open Street Map all the way here. Yeah, I like something that looks nice too - but more than that, I like something that works.
