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Is there a reason why all the OSM alternatives on iOS (like maps.me, osmAnd, mapout, etc.) require you to download the more zoomed in maps? I think being able
by ruph123 6y ago
Is there a reason why all the OSM alternatives on iOS (like maps.me, osmAnd, mapout, etc.) require you to download the more zoomed in maps?
I think being able to download is a nice feature but I don't often need it and would like to use an OSM-based alternative to Google Maps and zoom into any city without having to download it first.
Like: "Where was that place in Lisbon?" - "Lemme check... oh I have to download the city, one sec..." [Adding another few hundred megabytes that I will not need for a long time]
- hoschicz 6y agoActually, that’s what the „new“ MAPS.ME does - it’s just a wrapper around Mapbox, which is based on OSM and you can use it online.
- RivieraKid 6y agoMapy.cz or WindyMaps don't.
- improbable22 6y agoSome of them make downloading more of a hurdle than others, insisting that you download a whole country, or figure out what region you want. On MapOut at least, you zoom in too far & then click the tile you don't have. On a good network there's a little more friction than on (say) google maps, but not so bad. A few MB, never hundreds of MB. (And on a bad to nonexistent network, it's golden to be absolutely sure that it still has what you looked at yesterday.)
- ce4 6y agoOsmand's default map is drawn by the offline ondemand renderer, and that requires a download (there's the full blown map data and a road only version with ⅓ the size) There's also the option to enable tile based online maps from a number of predefined providers, if you know the url scheme you can also define a new satellite or traffic tile source from certain known providers (and set opacity) to show those tiles on top of another base map