Re:Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish
by technomancy on Thursday January 12, 2012 @02:57AM
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I'm a big fan of OpenStreetMap in theory as well, but once Google launched vector maps with really solid offline caching for their Android app it made it a lot harder for me to consider switching. I know OSM will let you cache tiles for offline viewing, but the level of caching you can do with vector data is a whole different level.
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Re:Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish
by zecg on Thursday January 12, 2012 @06:33AM
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OsmAnd nightly build (0.7.0 branch) is GPL'd, with offline vector OSM maps and it's mind-blowing. Navigation works, with voice. There is now a native rendering option on some devices, it's pretty spiffy. It can also record GPX tracks, with optional background service. The vector map of Croatia is 20 MB compressed, with a huge amount of POI data. Daily, an average of 50000 points are added to the map of Croatia. I've actually stopped using Google Maps, OSMAnd is the best map app and it's completely offline.
Re:Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish
by technomancy on Thursday January 12, 2012 @11:57AM
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Wow, it's come a long way since I tried it. Thanks for the heads-up.
Re:Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish
by liotier on Thursday January 12, 2012 @05:21AM
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You want offline OpenStreetMap vector maps on Android ? You are in luck today - take your pick : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAnd
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GpsMid
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapDroyd
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Navit