Organic Maps Turns 4: The Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Maps(organicmaps.app) |
Organic Maps Turns 4: The Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Maps(organicmaps.app) |
- ~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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What would you say are the fundamental differences between Organic Maps and 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.
If you are a french speaker and looking for a Web equivalent, check out https://cartes.app.
Source code at github.com/cartesapp
Also, I didn't know MAPS.ME had been open source since 2015!