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Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork - HN(news.ycombinator.com)

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Pleat1752@feddit.uk
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Organic Maps is better for “normal” users if you ask me. Osmand is better for pro users but quite clunky.

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przmk@sh.itjust.works
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Did osmand change its rendering engine to make it as smooth as OM?

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JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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Something changed to that effect a while back, yes. OM continues to look and feel a bit better (possibly a subjective experience) but it is so feature-poor by comparison.

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przmk@sh.itjust.works
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I just tested it again on my Fairphone 5 and it’s still slow. I’m not talking about the UI but the rendering of maps. Unless they somehow manage to fix that, it’ll keep being a poor experience.

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JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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Yes, Osmand is definitely clunky by comparison. But the UX is getting slowly more intuitive. I see no reason why Osmand’s easy-peasy defaults mode cannot end up equal to to OM. They’re not far off, and at that point its superiority would be clear as day.

Personally I wish the OM devs could have contributed their talents to making Osmand better. Really feels like wasteful duplication which benefits nobody benefits except the egos of a handful of developers. A common problem with FOSS and this is a great example IMO.

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I wish Organic maps would add some of the features from OsmAnd. I want the ability to select a part of the map to avoid.

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