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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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