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Does it have live traffic information? It looks quite polished but for an offline feature set OsmAnd~ has a lot more and is more established. OsmAnd does not (to my knowledge) have any live traffic info.


> It looks quite polished but for an offline feature set OsmAnd~ has a lot more and is more established

OrganicMaps is a fork of Maps.me, which is very well known among the general public: 55k ratings on the Apple Store and 50M downloads on the Play Store for Maps.me vs. 1.8k and 10M for OsmAnd.

Unfortunately a lot of people who use Maps.me/OrganicMaps don’t know that maps come from OSM, whereas with OsmAnd it’s clear right from the name.


> Unfortunately a lot of people who use Maps.me/OrganicMaps don’t know that maps come from OSM

OM has quite clear attribution, as required by ODBL license of OpenStreetMap data.


OsmAnd feels like an app for a map nerd, and I like it.


Compared to OsmAnd, Organic Maps is quite basic.

The advantage is that it does have a very streamlined UI, so if you just want to get to a map and navigate it's far more straightforward. You really need to spend some time to understand the "quirks" of how to use OsmAnd (a downside of its long feature list).


Unfortunately it does not have live traffic data like the app it is forked from, maps.me.

Hopefully they add it, but there aren’t many good open traffic projects that exist, so they’d need to rely on crowd sourced data like Magic Earth is doing and I’m not sure how well that would work.


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