On: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

[red_trumpet]

I also use Osmand, though when I compared it to Maps.me, loading a map was significantly slower in Osmand

[ce4 → red_trumpet]

1. Check if GPU rendering is activated.

2. Disable map features like areas, buildings and such

3. If still unhappy, delete the full blown map data and download the road only map data (about ⅓ size of full blown map)

4. eMMC/microSD speed matters a lot, if you put it on an external SD card, make sure to get a high speed IOPS card labeled "A1" (1500) or better "A2" (4000 guaranteed read IOPs).

Reason: The map is rendered locally on demand from the map data(base), there's no tiles in the default map view. You basically get almost all of Openstreetmap's data (POIs, buildings, areas, ways and relations), not every poi type is indexed and searchable though. It even have has a working public transport map with routing based on timetables (if present) and ferry ways, etc. If you put the data on a slow external sd card, you'll notice.

[PurpleFoxy → red_trumpet]

Yeah it was incredibly slow to render the map for me while google maps was flawless