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Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by pxtail on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:54AM (#25515763)
OsmAnd fits description perfectly, you can place bookmarks, no account required, maps from OSM, offline maps which can be used even without internet connection.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by alephu5 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:36AM (#25515997)
> OsmAnd fits description perfectly, you can place bookmarks, no account required, maps from OSM, offline maps which can be used even without internet connection.

I love OsmAnd and have paid for the premium version. It's great for hiking or in cities when you can't guarantee an internet connection.

Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by rob74 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:47AM (#25516046)
Yeah, I would have pointed out OsmAnd too, but you were faster :) I'm not a subscriber yet as the features of the free version are enough for me, but someday my conscience will probably guilt me into supporting them anyway...
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by wraptile on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:25AM (#25516231)
FYI They currently have a sub deal for like 8$/year!
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by jacekm on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:36AM (#25516589)
The full version is also available on F-Droid for free.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by zelphirkalt on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:20AM (#25516217)
OsmAndroid sucked so badly with its seemingly hours of loading time. Search queries never worked well unless you entered exactly the string, including case and sometime whitespace. It would sometimes not find anything, unless I entered a useless whitespace after my words. In comparison to maps.me it is really really bad user experience and not to be recommended on any old phone. Your old phone will just laaaag and you will curse the search function.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by unicornporn on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:51AM (#25516358)
> Search queries never worked well unless you entered exactly the string, including case and sometime whitespace.

This. OsmAnd is packed with advanced feautures but search is unusable which is unfortunate because that's how I'd usually use a map.

Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by boudin on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:08AM (#25516458)
For search I use the side app Acastus Photon which works well. It's just a search to position app that then can open the position in osmand.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by smichel17 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:26AM (#25516833)
I always thought that was just OSM data being incomplete. I guess I'll need to try Maps again.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by orbital-decay on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:29AM (#25516862)
It used to be the case, and I also avoided using OsmAnd in cities for years, but my recent attempt was far more successful. I think they finally fixed their search, at least I didn't encounter any issues with it lately. It's still definitely worse than most apps for hotels, stores, restaurants and so on, but is much less laggy anymore, and is indispensable for biking and pedestrian navigation as it shows every little OSM detail, unlike most other apps that focus on businesses.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by zelphirkalt on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @01:44PM (#25520651)
Thanks for that updated picture. Next time I need an app like that, I will give it a second chance.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by jmnicolas on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:21AM (#25516522)
OsmAnd is great and it's what I have on my phone, however it has a very un-intuitive UI and I often have to search for what feels ages to find a particular functionality.

It might be because I don't need a map often or maybe I'm just an idiot :)

Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by vinc on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:14PM (#25519724)
Same thing for me, I love OsmAnd and I paid to support it, but I'm frequently completely lost in the UI. I have used it for years and still I often need to kill it to be able to leave the menu.

I think the main issue is that the app is not intuitive, so you have to sit down and take the time to memorize how to do stuff with it before you need to do it live on the road. And I've never done that, my bad, I really should take the time.

Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by ce4 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:18AM (#25518416)
it has a very rich (or maybe feature laden) UI, that's certainly right. For questions and in case you happen to have a Telegram account, you can join Osmand's telegram channel with developers present!

https://t.me/OsmAndMaps

Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by globular-toast on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:28AM (#25515952)
Yeah. I have used maps.me in the past, but osmand is much better. It's one of the few apps I subscribe to (I get more frequent map updates).
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by leo010 on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:08PM (#25539825)
after osmand i wanted to use maps.me and understand that this pr. is really know what client wants
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by lazyjones on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @08:33AM (#25517447)
I use Guru Maps for that. It's neat & fast...
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by kratiany on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:16PM (#25586831)
I don't use anything other than maps.me
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by AronKa615 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:05AM (#25747017)
I actually can't understand, what's happening. In Poland Its still work great
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back by leo010 on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:06PM (#25539813)
In maps also have this functions so that I dont see arguments to change it