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.

  • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    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.

  • Az_1@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 day ago

    Main issue with osmand and comaps is that neither have integrated live public transport data even though the api for that in most cities is free. I feel this could be a really good feature but it hasn’t been touched by any open source map project yet for some reason

    • Basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      21·
      13 hours ago

      As someone who lives in a major european city who never has and never will drive, I cannot comprehend this. Guess I’ll stick to the Transit app until the FOSS map devs get their head out of their car centric asses and build something that works for everyone.

  • curious_dolphin@slrpnk.netEnglish
    29·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • illusionist@lemmy.zipOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      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

  • Ardens@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 day ago

    Open Street Map all the way here. Yeah, I like something that looks nice too - but more than that, I like something that works.

  • barcaxavi@lemmy.world
    72·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • wiccan2@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 hours ago

      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.

      • barcaxavi@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Not used it yet with the subscription, so I would be curious to hear what features are not working.

    • illusionist@lemmy.zipOP
      5·
      2 days ago

      Thanks!

      6€ per year would be reasonable for me. I’m just a casual user. I may need it only once every other month.

      • barcaxavi@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • illusionist@lemmy.zipOP
      3·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • Danitos@reddthat.com
      1·
      2 days ago

      They even seem to have regional pricing (or at least 1 year costs €3.5 in Colombia). Pretty nice deal IMO

  • Karkitoo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    72·
    2 days ago

    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.

      • DSN9@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 days ago

        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?

    • monovergent@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 day ago

      Anyone else wanting to move to CoMaps but procrastinating because they’d have to go about downloading the maps again?

      • Karkitoo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        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)

    • stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      Everyone, make sure to reply to this person instead of just downvoting their comments.

      It’s your responsibility to manage their feelings, not their responsibility to use an instance without downvotes, or even turn off downvotes in their own control panel.