A good opportunity to remind everyone that a vastly superior alternative to Organic Maps already exists: Osmand.
I would disagree. I have both and use each for different tasks.
OSMAnd is clunky and unintuitive. I have learned it well and have it setup for land navigation type stuff. It’s incredibly good at displaying every last detail of the topography.
Organic Maps is fantastic for city navigation. It’s smooth and quick and ever since the addition of turn-by-turn voice navigation I’m in love. I use the Sherpa Onnx voices and they sound so lifelike.
Organic Maps is better for “normal” users if you ask me. Osmand is better for pro users but quite clunky.
Did osmand change its rendering engine to make it as smooth as OM?
@przmk
Nope.
@Pleat1752
Osmand has a terrible user interface
It is also only open core and hides features behind a paywall.
OsmAND is not superior at all. It is unintuitive and prone to crashes.
Or perhaps it’s your software stack. I’ve used it constantly for well over a decade, every day, on multiple devices, and crashes have been vanishingly rare.
“It works for me”
“It doesn’t work for me.” Your argument is also just an anecdote.
Personally, I love OsmAnd because of the power features. In the best sense “it works for me”. However, I would recommend OM to not-so-nerdy friends and family as it is just simpler to use and understand due to the fewer features.
