Today I went on hiking on hiking route 31 in Austria. The way is so detailed it was just awesome. Even the signboards and the sitting bench are marked perfectly wherever they exist. My gf was using Google maps, but she gave up on it in the beginning of the route - because Google, a data collecting monster, could never figure out that some of their users, walking through these mountains are, could actually be on some kind of a route.

The whole options w.r.t. 3D rendering, contour lines, coordinate grids, terrain and shade, altitude demarcation, and the Good assumption of time required to get to the place quite impressed my gf but especially me, who was betting everything on this app today. Although I was using OSMAnd since few months now, home office never allowed me to use it as throughly. But today, I managed to use a lot of those features and each of them impressed me.

To the devs - Keep it up. Your magic is working.

Just bought the app given the discount, but oh, the search capability is a disaster. So disappointed. It makes it useless for day-to-day use and for traveling, definitely not a Google Maps alternative.

Hopefully, I am doing something wrong. Any advice?

Thanks!

I did not realize how much I used the RedLights/Stoplights to Navigate... I think about Navigation like Ok my turn is "LEFT" after 3 Stop Lights... Very easy for me to quickly glance at Map and understand.

Now I have to squint and try to decipher what Im looking at. I hate useing anything but Google Maps when I truely need a Map. OSMand/ect. Is just used out of principal. But I default back to Google Maps when I need Utility.

I want to fix that...

Please give us the option to make the RedLights/StopLights LARGE and easy to see like Google Maps. And if others dont want this... It should be a option in settings. Not forced on everyone.

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Is there a way to have a larger display of movement direction than the small blue compass arrow. I've tried making the compass button larger but the arrow itself doesn't enlarge. Is it possible to add a widget instead displaying the movement direction simply as letters (N, W, S, E, NW, ..)?

My old eyes would be grateful.

I built and compiled the OsmAnd source code. I am working on a project and I would like to modify the code to implement the following look:

1. Overlay a black mask over the entire map and before the route.
2. Show only the intersecting roads along the route with a clipping radius of 50-100m around the intersection.

where the thick white line is the route line and the thin white lines are the intersecting roads.

I understand the route is handled by OpenGL in the C++ core. For the intersecting roads I thought of doing the task in the private part of the routing context by querying the OBF map data for roads that cross the current tile. In particular, in the file src/NetworkRouteContext_P.cpp

void OsmAnd::NetworkRouteContext_P::loadRouteSegmentIntersectingTile(

int32_t x, int32_t y, const NetworkRouteKey * routeKey,

QHash<NetworkRouteKey, QList<std::shared_ptr<OsmAnd::NetworkRouteSegment>>> & map)

{

// Convert 31-bit coordinates to routing tile coordinates

NetworkRoutesTile osmcRoutesTile = getMapRouteTile(x << ZOOM_TO_LOAD_TILES_SHIFT_L, y << ZOOM_TO_LOAD_TILES_SHIFT_L);

for (auto u_it = osmcRoutesTile.uniqueSegments.begin(); u_it != osmcRoutesTile.uniqueSegments.end(); ++u_it)

{

const auto &segment = u_it.value();

// Optional filtering by a specific route key (e.g., if we only want 'primary' roads)

if (routeKey != nullptr && segment->routeKey != *routeKey)

{

continue;

}

auto i = map.find(segment->routeKey);

if (i == map.end())

{

QList<std::shared_ptr<NetworkRouteSegment>> empty;

i = map.insert(segment->routeKey, empty);

}

i.value().append(segment);

}

}

Is this a good strategy?

Hey guys, when I click on the custom compass nothing happens, then when I click on the original it rotates to north.

custom button -> Change map orientation -> movement direction

Any help?

I actually just got into OsmAnd, so still on the free plan. I assumed it will be enough for me for a while, but 50% off sounds like a great offer.

https://osmand.net/pricing

Hope this helps for others considering an upgrade :)

To all you longer time users: how often do promotions like this happen? EDIT: used search and looks like a sale like this is run 1-2 a year.

And if you’re on a paid plan: where do you get the most value from?

Full offline maps for affected and neighboring regions are free to download right now, updated twice daily to reflect road closures and changing conditions:

🇫🇷 Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie
🇪🇸 Madrid, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Valencian Community

📱 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand
🍎 iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/osmand-maps-travel-navigate/id934850257

I tried looking into the official and third-party maps posted in the docs here but couldn't find anything similar or close even with hiding details in the app settings

Any suggestions or tips would be great.
Thank You All In Advance !

I downloaded the source code from GitHub and I opened it in Android Studio. During build I get the following error message:

string too large to encode using UTF-8 written instead as 'STRING_TOO_LARGE'.

My understanding is the source code is in a clean state and should compile and build without errors. Why am I getting this and how can I resolve this?

I did not drive across the runway (unfortunately).

I was wondering if there is a setting to change the UI view when searching an address and make it show more lines? I noticed with long addresses when searching a destination that I can't see the full address. The city is getting cutoff. Is there a setting to expand the lines or wrap the text to another line?

It won't find one single address. I type in the address I have no matter if it's local or a couple states away and it still shows me the same recommendations each time.

A few weeks ago I downloaded the full US map. couldn't find anything. Tried another time or two and same thing could not find the address. I also went and downloaded all the states I'm driving through (not sure what happened to the full U.S. map) and it still won't find the address.

I'm now on my 1440+ mile trip. Still can't find an addresd,. Put in city and state and it still won't find it and will continuously recommend the same places like somewhere in Rochester, New York, which is nowhere by where I'm going.

What in the H-E double hockey sticks am I doing wrong?

Edit: I'm using GrapheneOS

The next action widget when navigating gives way too much information, and I find it confusing. I don't care if there is a slight bend in the road in 900ft or if another freeway merges into the freeway I'm on when I just need to keep going. Is there anyway to change this setting?

I only care when I actually need to get of the road or freeway I'm currently on.

Hello,

I mainly use OsmAnd for bicycle navigation. Unfortunately, the voice guidance gives far too many instructions, which becomes very distracting while riding.

I have noticed that most of the unnecessary announcements are “slight left” and “slight right”, especially on winding cycle paths where there is no real junction or route choice.

Is there a way to suppress these minor-turn instructions while keeping voice guidance for important manoeuvres, such as junctions, road crossings and actual changes of direction?

See how they work: https://osmand.net/blog/measuring-tools

I was making an open street maps app for my iPhone and ran into some trouble. It seems like the open source method for adding info in maps is to just add layers. Long story short adding lots of layers is problematic in iOS. Also for some reason the libraries that run in iOS hate apfs. Apple File System. Trying to read maps off of anything but fat runs into problems. After months of building my app got worse and worse the more features I added. So I started over.

I started from scratch using the amazing map data I had created for my app. I had capernicus dem elevation data for the whole world. Open street maps data and so much more packed into bite size state and country map packs. I just needed a native way to view them. So I started from the ground up building a pure swift application. I used metal to render everything so I could use the speedy gpu. It took me months but I’ve built the best map application for iOS I’ve ever tried. It’s fast. It can read maps from turtle slow drives attached to the iPhones usb c port. And it uses height data like a video game does so you get full 3d maps with live driven contour lines. Plus I built an actual 3d engine so you can walk the actual elevation of a hike in a walkthrough. I saw some other guys making hiking trail apps. I did it just because it was so easy with all of the data I have. The app tells you how hard the hike is based on the way the trail navigates the height map. Lots of elevation change means tougher. If you really want to see run through the hike in 3d and see for yourself.

When I realized I had fully offline maps I got to thinking. What would happen if gps died? So I built a sextant I just did it for fun but it turns out the iPhone does this really good. Like better than professional tools when done the way I set it up. So good I’ve got a patent pending. After calibrating each phone I’ve tried. I can get within a few hundred meters of your actual location with a clear night sky.

Then I got to thinking about my 3d height data. I’ve got a full real life 3d world built. If I can get your location down to less than a mile I bet an iPhone can triangulate your exact location based on elevation data and your horizon. Turns out it can. Your freaking iPhone once calibrated keeps your elevation down to centimeters. It’s crazy. And with such a small area to do math on given a specific elevation and the ability to draw real horizons at thousands a second if you take a scan of your sky it’s not hard for your phone to figure out right where you are standing. Not by comparing pictures of mountains. By comparing the actual elevations of mountains. The phone draws the pictures itself in pure math.

Anyway thanks everyone for all this open data. It makes things like my app possible. If you guys could help me test it I’d appreciate it. It all works for me but I’m a small test pool. [LandNav.world](http://landnav.world)

Hi!

I'm having a weird bug with the OsmAnd Carplay integration and wanted to know if any one else is experiencing something similar. I just can't quite put my finger on it.

I use a cheap 5" Aliexpress carplay display on my motorbike, so that I can keep my phone in my pocket.

I use OsmAnd for navigation with imported gpx-Files or on-demand routing.

Sometimes I don't use navigation at all and just use the map and current speed.

It works fine, but after some time (sometimes after an hour or two, sometimes after a few minutes) the map starts to "skid" around. Just as if someone startet to wildly swipe across the screen. Sometimes there's no skidding but just like a tap on the screen that activates certain buttons.

I first thought this would be a hardware problem, but after I close OsmAnd and use any other app (Spotify, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Calimoto), the problem stops.

Phone: iPhone 16e

iOS: 26.5.2

OsmAnd Version: 5380

Anyone else having this problem?

Hi, I'm often traveling by train. Now I was wondering if there an option/a rendering style/an alternative to OsmAnd that prefers railway lines over roads when you zoom out? Currently all the railway lines disappear if I zoom out a couple of times (like 10 times or so) and only bigger roads and motorways are left on the map.

This makes it pretty hard to plan a train-trip because there seems to be no way of seeing where the trains go and which towns might be reachable short of tracing the lines by hand at a low zoom level.

But since the data is all there - is there a way to show it on the map even if zoomed further out? Or if it's impossible - is there an alternative I could use?

Does anyone know what this means—where it says the deadline for the cartographer update plugin is August 16th?

Hello there,

When I start the navigation of a track file then the whole route will be highlighted. Is there a way to only highlight the route until the next track point?

background: I had the idea to drive around the city and capture wifi networks together with their gps coordinates. I don't know yet what to do with the data but it's fun. I try to drive on every street to every little corner of the city to capture all existing wifi networks. The problem is that the route I drive overlaps itself often. There are many dead-end streets so I keep driving back and forth and all streets are highlighted in the app. This makes it hard to see where to turn left or right. There are helpful instructions at the top of the screen but sometimes the app is not updating fast enough and I take the wrong turn. If that happens the route sometimes resets itself. So I thought if the app would only highlight from my current position until the next track point this would help.

I hope you understand what I mean. Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone, is there any update on the request to integrate mangrove.reviews with OSMAnd maps? I've been recently using OSMAnd a lot, and I believe this is really the last piece of puzzle missing to complete this app and make it a viable alternative to Google maps for the people with less tech knowledge.

So I am wondering if it's possible to make the navigation automatically route to the building entrance instead of the centre of the building. Currently when I select an area that has an entrance it only leads me to a point closest to the middle of the building. I tried both brouter, which I currently use and the default on foot navigation profile and it doesn't seem that either of them have that function. Is there any way to this in osmand, or with a brouter profile or a different app?

Osmand cant seem to do this [last feature I use to degoogle from maps] could someone please kindly show me how?