city-roads VS OsmAnd

Compare city-roads vs OsmAnd and see what are their differences.

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city-roads OsmAnd
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5,872 4,258
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3.7 10.0
3 months ago 3 days ago
JavaScript Java
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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city-roads

Posts with mentions or reviews of city-roads. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.

OsmAnd

Posts with mentions or reviews of OsmAnd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-03.
  • Bridges in the US are threaten by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2024
    > Google maps and Waze does not allow for setting vehicle height

    As a side note, OsmAnd supports setting vehicle height* and has support for multiple vehicles/routing profiles: https://osmand.net

    *: and weight, width, and length

  • Organic Maps is a free Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2024
  • 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2024
    Slightly offtopic

    I have OsmAnd ( https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd ) on my phone, download the basemaps, download my (small) country data (both sourced from open street maps), and with an app + ~1GB of data, I get the maps and full navigation within my country, POIs, etc., and can add other countries when needed.

    Is there something similar for a PC? I can download data from open street maps, but then I need postgres, postgis, a tile server and styles and apache running just to generate the tiles. Is there anything portable (short of running osmand in an android virtualbox) for offline navigation on a linux pc? QGIS can display vectors, but I wasn't able to easily style the data... navigation is a no-go there too. anything else?

  • "I'm in this picture and I don't like it"
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 9 Dec 2023
    OsmAnd works for me. I am looking to get off Google, so I try to retire anything that is not on F-Droid. OsmAnd is a independent project ( osmand.net ) that uses the data you can also access under www.openstreetmap.org . The App is not perfect and sometimes it calls for the wrong action, for example when a road is just taking a steep turn it might ask for you to turn onto a different road which is actually the same every now and then. Also Google uses the location data of it's users to change routes depending on congestion afaik. Don't expect that from OsmAnd.
  • replacing stock apps with FOSS alternatives..
    5 projects | /r/fossdroid | 30 Oct 2023
    Organic Maps & OsmAnd~ are the classic map alternatives but i don't use them.
  • WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
    When I am on a flight and the flight does not provide the flight information, I am using the OsmAnd, https://osmand.net/, to monitor the flight altitude, speed and direction.
  • Improving your online privacy: An update
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Sep 2023
    Regarding usage of OpenStreetMap over Google Maps - assuming we're talking mobile usage - you might give OSMAnd[0] a try. I've been using it exclusively on a Pixel loaded with GrapheneOS for a few months now. I would never consider going back to GMaps and I don't feel that I've lost anything either.

    [0] - https://osmand.net/

  • ⟳ 4 apps added, 121 updated at f-droid.org
    24 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 15 Sep 2023
    OsmAnd~ (version 4.5.8): Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online OSM Maps
  • Organic Maps
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2023
    OSMAnd tracks users using a secret supercookie by default because the developer wants metrics. This is done without consent. The defensiveness of the developer with regards to such unethical tracking means that I will never use any software they ever release.

    https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/15058

  • Exploring Offline Navigation Apps: My Experience with MapMetrics and OSM
    1 project | /r/Navigation | 28 Jul 2023
    OSMand: https://osmand.net/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing city-roads and OsmAnd you can also consider the following projects:

Openstreetmap - The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

omapsapp - 🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

OpenRailwayMap - An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure.

zld - A faster version of Apple's linker

Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) - Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend

Nominatim - Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data

qmapshack - Consumer grade GIS software

StreetComplete - Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete]

Graphhopper - Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.