[rtsisyk]

What have we achieved so far as we approach Christmas 2024:

- ~3M¹ users from all countries of the world

- ~15k ratings and reviews on AppStore and Google Play

- 4.8/4.6 average rating on AppStore/Google Play

- 10k+ stars on GitHub

- 10k (almost) issues + PRs on GitHub

- 1k (almost) forks on GitHub

- 7k+ git commits

- ~100 awesome contributors who made 5+ commits

- $0 spend on marketing - pure Organic growth

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[sunshine-o]

Interesting, I will try !

What would you say are the fundamental differences between Organic Maps and OsmAnd?

[contrapunctus]

Pros of Organic Maps compared to OsmAnd -

* Rendering and routing are faster (especially noticeable on older devices)

* Renders 3D buildings

* Far smpler UI, so it's hard for tech-illiterate users to get stuck

* Changes made with the Organic Maps editor become visible in your Organic Maps immediately. In OsmAnd, your edits vanish upon upload, and only appear once there is a map update - this can be as early as in one hour (using OsmAnd Live), or as late as one month.

* Organic Maps is less buggy.

Cons of Organic Maps compared to OsmAnd -

* OsmAnd has far more features, like bus or share taxi routing, aerial imagery, 3D relief, analysis of GPS tracks, radius ruler, etc

* OsmAnd can render a lot more data like street surface, smoothness, access restrictions, lighting, features with FIXME tags, OSM notes, etc.

* Organic Maps only updates data once a month. OsmAnd updates data monthly too, but also has the OsmAnd Live feature to update data every hour.

* OsmAnd's editor supports adding arbitrary keys, whereas Organic Maps' does not.