Interesting perspective. I too have used Osmand (or “OsmAnd” or “OSMAnd” or whatever unpronounceable official name it is) for years. 13 years to be precisely, without a break. I’ve contributed numerous bug reports and feature requests. It’s clunky and unintuitive yes, but I’ve seen worse in other power apps of this kind.
But Osmand is still lacking a couple of features on my personal wishlist, so I naturally gave Organic Maps a decent audition, navigation included. I found that it did only one thing better: rendering of subway lines in dense cities. But this has now been largely fixed by a new setting in Osmand (cleverly hidden, obviously). In everything else, OM just felt to me like a poor man’s alternative to Osmand. With a busy hive of developers earnestly working towards feature parity sometime in the next millennium.
These two projects have the exactly the same objectives. I continue to wish the OM developers would just put aside their egos and help fix whatever it is they don’t like in Osmand. That’s the point of FOSS.
Interesting perspective. I too have used Osmand (or “OsmAnd” or “OSMAnd” or whatever unpronounceable official name it is) for years. 13 years to be precisely, without a break. I’ve contributed numerous bug reports and feature requests. It’s clunky and unintuitive yes, but I’ve seen worse in other power apps of this kind.
But Osmand is still lacking a couple of features on my personal wishlist, so I naturally gave Organic Maps a decent audition, navigation included. I found that it did only one thing better: rendering of subway lines in dense cities. But this has now been largely fixed by a new setting in Osmand (cleverly hidden, obviously). In everything else, OM just felt to me like a poor man’s alternative to Osmand. With a busy hive of developers earnestly working towards feature parity sometime in the next millennium.
These two projects have the exactly the same objectives. I continue to wish the OM developers would just put aside their egos and help fix whatever it is they don’t like in Osmand. That’s the point of FOSS.
@JubilantJaguar @sic_semper_tyrannis
The developers pronounce it “Osmand” like the fairly common name.
https://youtu.be/SPab09kaWPc?t=47
Everyone does. If only they would drop the fussy spelling conceit and just write it like that.