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The standard osm app is already offline, although the ux could be improved
by developer93 5y ago
The standard osm app is already offline, although the ux could be improved
- bobiny 5y agoThere is no standard osm app on iOS. Top hit is OsmAnd and it's not free.
- RealStickman_ 5y agoOsmAnd has two versions on the Play Store. One free and one paid (OsmAnd+). On F-Droid OsmAnd+ is available for free.
- rjmunro 5y agoEither way it's not a "standard OSM app", just a popular one.
- hansel_der 5y agoi cosider it the reference implementation
- bobiny 5y agoWell, on iOS the app is free, but you can download a limited number of maps. Then it's either subscription or payment for individual regions. Maps.me or Google or Yandex maps have free downloads. Organic maps also claim not to track activity.
- rob74 5y agoYup... but it also helps to know that OSM is not a cheap surrogate for the above-mentioned commercial services, for hiking or cycling it's actually much better - at least as far as the map is concerned, the navigation features of the apps I tried until now are unfortunately a bit lacking.
- Freak_NL 5y agoIt isn't though. The Carto rendering style shown on openstreetmap.org is as close as we get to having a reference implementation. Osmand, while a good product, is much further removed from the OSM community.
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoWithout getting into how official a product OSMAnd can be considered, I think it’s worth pointing out that Carto has limitations that OSMAnd improves on. Due to OSMAnd’s configurable vector drawing, it is possible to make the map show road surfaces or whether roads are lit. These are features missing from official OSM.org, which of course serves as little more than a tech demo.
- developer93 5y agoYou're absolutely right, I was thinking of osmAnd, maybe I should have said biggest instead of standard, whatever thanks for your correction
- xattt 5y agoI thought a highly functional version was Magic Earth.
- rob74 5y agoThere is a free version, but with the free version you can only download a limited number of "regions" (a "region" could be a small country or a subdivision of a larger country).