[pw6hv]

I do not know if it's available on iOS (I suspect no) but on Android I am a really happy user of Osmand. It uses Openstreetmap as maps provider and I always use it when hiking. It gives you the altitude profile of your route which is very useful.

[red_trumpet]

I also use Osmand, though when I compared it to Maps.me, loading a map was significantly slower in Osmand

[ce4]

1. Check if GPU rendering is activated.

2. Disable map features like areas, buildings and such

3. If still unhappy, delete the full blown map data and download the road only map data (about ⅓ size of full blown map)

4. eMMC/microSD speed matters a lot, if you put it on an external SD card, make sure to get a high speed IOPS card labeled "A1" (1500) or better "A2" (4000 guaranteed read IOPs).

Reason: The map is rendered locally on demand from the map data(base), there's no tiles in the default map view. You basically get almost all of Openstreetmap's data (POIs, buildings, areas, ways and relations), not every poi type is indexed and searchable though. It even have has a working public transport map with routing based on timetables (if present) and ferry ways, etc. If you put the data on a slow external sd card, you'll notice.

[PurpleFoxy]

Yeah it was incredibly slow to render the map for me while google maps was flawless

[Doctor_Fegg]

It is on iOS, though it usually lags the Android version.

[circularfoyers]

I did observe it lagging on Android in the past but some point in the last year (I can't remember exactly when) they improved the performance a lot. Still not perfect but nowhere near as laggy as it was in my experience.

Edit: I realised after posting this that you were actually referring to releases not performance.

[maelito]

OSMand is much more complete than maps.me.

A usable alternative to gmaps for me.

[piaste]

A critical aspect OSMand is missing for me are business information.

OSM maps will include store and venue locations, but Google Maps will show me their opening hours and give me their phone number, website, and (for restaurants) menu and food pictures.

Looking up that kind of info is, [i]by far[/i], the most common reason for me to open the maps app in the first place, before I actually decide that I want to go there and start navigation.

Obviously this is all information that Google has and OSM doesn't. But I would be OK with a plugin that lets me click on a store on OSM to open it in a Google Maps page in a webview.

I'd be letting Google know that I am interested in that place - no way around it - but I could keep the information of whether I actually went there and how long I stayed within OSM, without sharing my location with Google.

Another, probably easier plugin would be one that lets OSMAnd recognize the location provided by Google Maps when I use the share button. Then I could look up places I want to go on GMaps and send them to OSMAnd+ for navigation.

[Mediterraneo10]

Osmand shows opening hours etc. when available, just do a short tap on the POI. As this is a "news for nerds" website, it is worth mentioning that if you find that info absent on OSM, then that means that you can add it for the benefit of all.

[mbirth]

For people that don't want to look into editing OSM directly, there's this website to easily add business information: https://www.onosm.org

Entered data will be added as a note to OSM and experienced editors will then correct/add the business on the map.

[ce4]

Strictly speaking that is not Osmand's fault, but an issue of tte underlying OpenStreetMap data project.

Google invests a lot into tagging google map POIs. On standard Android installations Google maps activates the maps timeline recording for you and it's creepily good at guessing to which shops you've been and by what means, etc. You then get frequent notifications that push and nudge you to review and answer questions about places (wheelchair access, confirm opening hours, business type, inventory, add photos, reviews, etc). The whole ordeal is quite gamified with contributor level and stars earned on your profile badge. It's designed to have GMaps' data as much as possible enriched by users.

[crishi7]

I always download new maps for cities and countries. There will be no problems in the future

[kepchik]

It depends on your choice, everyone of us can think that him or her program the best