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How does your everyday map look like? Which map style do you use?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The rendering in Organic Maps is great I think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, OSMAnd's rendering is clunky

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah Organic Maps is so beatiful! Osmand looks kind of ugly. I am an engineer and Osmand style looks like it’s made by an engineer while Organic Maps looks like it has received the love of some caring designer!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OsmAnd re-rendering whenever I move the mapsl sucks arse. Very bad UX.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's imo better looking themes for it. I like the look of the cycloroute theme, toned down greens etc. But I am so used to the standard osmand theme that I just keep using that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@randomaccount43543 @youslashuser So true, plus @organicmaps loads much faster. On the other hand, #OSMand has more features for power users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last week I was driving with my sister and she said, looking at OsmAnd: "What app is this? I don't understand anything on that map!". I think that it takes some time to get used to OsmAnd map style, but it's very clear after you understand it (clearer than Organic Maps, in my opinion).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on what you want from the map. I'd like a map to look good when using it and I don't think OSMand achieves that. But that's personal taste.. Editing it I actually prefer Carto or even the raw import in JOSM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sure. But I like OsmAnd because I can tell very fast which are major roads and which aren't (and driving in a big city you don't know it can be useful).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I absolutely love CyclOSM. It's great for bike commuting, as it differentiates between separated cycle paths and cycle lanes, shows one-way streets that allow opposite bicycle traffic, good/bad surface quality, 20 and 30 km/h streets and bike stands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like the default OSM carto style, however as an everyday map while walking I mostly use Streetcomplete (or sometimes everydoor) as I like the ability to make edits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use Organic Maps for daily use, and OSMAnd for outdoors activities like hiking etc. The added info and features in OSMAnd are indispensable for outdoors use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably Goldmaster is talking about the film Tron Legacy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is correct, there was a webpage that could transform a map into something like tron

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

CyclOSM 99% of the time.