IMO OrganicMaps is a better OSM app.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Organic maps lacks a lot of features.
I agree, but I'd say it meets the needs of most users. Anyone that needs additional features should try osmand.
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Is there a way to make it pull some data on road closures from google maps? There's a lot of construction on my way to work right now so I rely on google maps to pick the fastest routes, which it does well. OSM just doesn't have the data to do that.
OSM is just map data. No navigation. You can add any routing engine, the problem is, google does not share that data.
Osmand can't use google data because its proprietary.
What I do is I just give myself extra time to get to my destination.
With osm I take the shortcuts that are not on google.
I was hoping it could be scraped somehow, but yeah, that's very non-trivial for something like maps.
Gmaps WV
Testflight link can be found here: https://osmand.net/docs/versions/nightly_versions/
I think I'll stick with stable
Testflight = free in app purchases