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I dowloaded Organic Maps ten minutes ago so take my comparison with a grain of salt. I could have missed some features in OM. Here we go:

Moving the map is much faster in OM than in OSMAnd. I hope that OSMAnd study the code of OM.

The visualization in OM is much nicer. Another thing to copy.

OM is extremely better at displaying POIs and their information. Again, copy it.

Despite the claims it seems that OM does not show walking and cycling routes. OSMAnd shows them with their name, that matches the one you see on signposts along the routes.

OM does not seem to have a way to record a route and save it as gpx. OSMAnd does that.

OM does not seem to have a way to place markers on the map. I use them to plan new routes for biking, then I follow the markers. Navigation would bring me where it wants to go through, not where I want to.

OM is less than half the size of OSMAnd but it's still 58 MB. I wonder why these mapping apps must be so large.

Having to dowload all the maps again is very bad. I wish there is a way to share them among apps but I think that Android makes it impossible, unless we want to use a folder on an external storage (SD card) or root the phone or whatever.

I'll keep using OSMAnd because of recording, markers and routes. However I might recommend OM to friends that only need a replacement for Google Maps.




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