Indeed. It should be the default to have a full map of your area downloaded. But no, Google wants everyone to be dependent upon them on a second-to-second level. (Yes I know Google has offline maps and unlike YouTube the offline support is free as in beer, but it’s in an untransparent and a much less powerful manner, and if you’re online it will use the network heavily)
I was in a chunk of the world where roaming was prohibitive this summer, and Organic Maps took us everywhere, found us incredible viewing spots to photograph from, and basically gave us a real connection to the landscape around us. The UI was slightly confusing, but forgivable, and if I had any money I would give it to them.
And it is accurate in the Caribbean, unlike Google Maps that insists on sending me over cliffs to my death, people’s back yards, non existent or dead end roads, as well as other areas best avoided.
You have OpenStreetMap to thank for that. It is a Wikipedia-like crowd sourced map that anybody can contribute to. The immense majority of navigation apps use OpenStreetMap data, including Strava, RWGPS, OsmAnd, and OrganicMaps.
Indeed. It should be the default to have a full map of your area downloaded. But no, Google wants everyone to be dependent upon them on a second-to-second level. (Yes I know Google has offline maps and unlike YouTube the offline support is free as in beer, but it’s in an untransparent and a much less powerful manner, and if you’re online it will use the network heavily)
I was in a chunk of the world where roaming was prohibitive this summer, and Organic Maps took us everywhere, found us incredible viewing spots to photograph from, and basically gave us a real connection to the landscape around us. The UI was slightly confusing, but forgivable, and if I had any money I would give it to them.
> found us incredible viewing spots to photograph from
Curious to hear more about this? Something specific to Organic Maps? I spend a lot of time studying maps when I'm on a trip for this purpose.
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I thought the map data was OSM, and organic maps is navigation software that uses the map data.
And it is accurate in the Caribbean, unlike Google Maps that insists on sending me over cliffs to my death, people’s back yards, non existent or dead end roads, as well as other areas best avoided.
You have OpenStreetMap to thank for that. It is a Wikipedia-like crowd sourced map that anybody can contribute to. The immense majority of navigation apps use OpenStreetMap data, including Strava, RWGPS, OsmAnd, and OrganicMaps.