I liked using it but 15€/year for navigation is too much for me. I’m going to stick to osmand now. At least osmand is open source. It has roughly the same features. It’s just not that beautiful. I paid for osmand btw. What’s your alternative?
Edit: And I like paying for osmand because it is open source.
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“It’s not foss but something something privacy…” Proprietary software, not even once.
In case anyone else out there is unaware, the “paid” tier for Osmand is unlockable for free to OSM contributors, meaning if you make a habit of contributing edits to OSM, then all you’d have to do is link to your OSM account within Osmand settings. Not to dissuade anyone from contributing financially, just sayin’ b/c I think that is a nice little perk for editors from the Osmand team.
I personally prefer CoMaps (forked from Organic Maps), the UI is a little more intuitive to me than Osmand.
Thanks for highlighting it.i also use the fdroid version. It didn’t stop me from buying and donating and contributing heavily. It’s really handy to add small changes or a note without investing a lot of time like with SC
Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I think I used an apk from way before and now after updating it I see their new beautiful UI. Pretty nice.
I’m also all for OSS, but in this case, for me, there’s no OSS alternative for navigation. Both CoMaps and OsmAnd can be used for it, but not tailored to do it.
As a frequent and satisfied user, I’m happy to contribute to their development. 15 EUR annually doesn’t seem far fetched, but you can actually get the Premium package on their site for 6 EUR (link to the pricing page). That’s like 3-4 can of beers kind of money.
They even seem to have regional pricing (or at least 1 year costs €3.5 in Colombia). Pretty nice deal IMO
Nice. So is €3.5 around 3-4 cans of beer in Colombia?
€3.5 is more like 4-6
Thanks!
6€ per year would be reasonable for me. I’m just a casual user. I may need it only once every other month.
That’s nice to read, happy you found a solution fitting for you. Also happy to read you’d like to contribute, sometimes I get mixed feedback when it’s about giving back somehow to these devs.
I’ll buy it. I have used it oftentimes in the past. I see it as a support for what I already got instead of what I am about to get. I’ll see how it goes in a year.
I like Organic Maps. UI is clear and simple-ish to use.
However, it lacks quite a lot compared to the (cluttered UI of) OSMand.
Edit: great mentality there. You could at least tell me the pros of your favorite solution and the cons of organic map before Downvoting me.
I switched to organic maps too.
Also, until comaps have bike layer I am not switching
Everyone, make sure to reply to this person instead of just downvoting their comments.
It’s your responsibility to manage their feelings, not their responsibility to use an instance without downvotes, or even turn off downvotes in their own control panel.
Organic maps is shit.
Use CoMaps instead.
Why? Is nefarious activity really occuring? It looks like from the linked article, small dev teams are more efficient. There is a scalability issue, governance, inclusion versus efficiency. I can understand in theory why they forked (and I’m switching to comaps), but has organic maps actually done anything bad? Can someone clarify? Is this nonsense what happened with maps.me?
+1 for CoMaps
I would guess this is why it’s referred to as shit: https://menafn.com/1109612598/Organic-Maps-Fork-Spurs-Governance-Debate
It seems that version 2025122009 still works for the time being.