[throwaway81523]

None of that office or bug tracking stuff is that interesting or important imho. There's plenty of alternatives that work well enough. The interesting stuff is the hardest. From Google services alone: language translation, voice transcription, maps/directions (open street map is only partway there and Osmand is almost unusable), and of course searching the entire web.

[mackrevinack]

osmand does a lot of things so it depends what you are trying to do with it really.

organic maps (which also uses openstreetmap) is a bit more straight forward and minimal and is what i usually recommend to most people

[throwaway81523]

The main thing I want mapping for is navigating to place X in my car with voice prompts. Osmand is way too slow to notice that I've missed a turn or something like that. So it thinks I'm somewhere that I'm not, and persists in that belief until I'm off course for maybe some minutes. Google Maps is much better in that regard. But both of them really need a user control (pushbutton, maybe even a bluetooth pushbutton on the dashboard so you don't have to look at your phone) that says "mapping app, you are confused! I am not where you think I am. Update location to current GPS reading and recalculate route right now". Also, Osmand is ridiculously slow at route calculation. Idk how it can be so slow. Garmin automotive GPS of 10+ years ago were far faster at it despite having 1/100th the processing power of a modern phone.

The map data itself also isn't that great, but at least you can hunt around for the location you want while the car is parked or pulled over. The route recalculation issue is massively frustrating because it nabs you while you are actually driving, dodging other cars, etc.

I hadn't heard of Organic Maps. I'll look for it. Thanks.

[pmontra]

Thanks. Osmand has indeed a very complicated GUI which would need a lot of careful redesign or to be split into 3 or 4 different apps for different purposes. Unfortunately Organic Maps doesn't import gpx and I have a substantial library of tracks in that format. Strange choice because I think that gpx is the de facto standard.