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It's good to see that OsmAnd is still being worked on. It's been a bit clunky and missing features for a long time, even though it's monetized. At the moment th
by sorenjan 4y ago
It's good to see that OsmAnd is still being worked on. It's been a bit clunky and missing features for a long time, even though it's monetized. At the moment there's 2445 open issues on their Github, so it's understandable that pretty much every one gets marked as "nice to have" and then never revisited.
There's still poor/no kml/kmz-support (probably the gold standard to distribute routes, POIs, overlays, etc as a collection), it's difficult to use for newcomers, there's no split screen map and bike data like real bike computers, there's no integration with external services like Strava or Komoot for routes and trip uploads, it uses a lot of battery when navigating, etc. Even so, it's still the app I use for trips when I want to use offline maps, preplanned routes, and log where I've been.
- Aachen 4y agoThe complaint I hear more often is that it has too many features, not missing features, making the UI nearly impossible to keep simple. What's a split map?
- amiga386 4y agoI think they mean where half the screen shows a map and the other half shows Important Motivational Bike Stats (distance completed, speed, gradient, heart rate?)... For the stats that OsmAnd can handle (e.g. speed, speed limit, elevation, ETA, you can configure what's in the pile of overlay boxes on the top right of the screen. I don't know if there's a plugin that could render the display as half-map, half-stats
- harvey9 4y agoIt's not pitched as a bike computer. The cycle navigation mode just enables use of paths that may not be available to cars or pedestrians.