OsmAnd — Maps & GPS Offline
June 07, 2024
More About OsmAnd — Maps & GPS Offline
Main features:
Map view
• Choice of places to be displayed on the map: attractions, food, health and more;
• Search for places by address, name, coordinates, or category;
• Map styles for the convenience of different activities: touring view, nautical map, winter and ski, topographic, desert, off-road, and others;
• Shading relief and plug-in contour lines;
• Ability to overlay different sources of maps on top of each other;
GPS Navigation
• Plotting a route to a place without an Internet connection;
• Customizable navigation profiles for different vehicles: cars, motorcycles, bicycles, 4x4, pedestrians, boats, public transport, and more;
• Change the constructed route, taking into account the exclusion of certain roads or road surfaces;
• Customizable information widgets about the route: distance, speed, remaining travel time, distance to turn, and more;
Route Planning and Recording
• Plotting a route point by point using one or multiple navigation profiles;
• Route recording using GPX tracks;
• Manage GPX tracks: displaying your own or imported GPX tracks on the map, navigating through them;
• Visual data about the route - descents/ascents, distances;
• Ability to share GPX track in OpenStreetMap;
Creation of points with different functionality
• Favourites;
• Markers;
• Audio/video notes;
OpenStreetMap
• Making edits to OSM;
• Updating maps with a frequency of up to one hour;
Additional features
• Compass and radius ruler;
• Mapillary interface;
• Night theme;
• Wikipedia;
• Large community of users around the world, documentation, and support;
Paid features:
Maps+ (in-app or subscription)
• Android Auto support;
• Unlimited map downloads;
• Topo data (Contour lines and Terrain);
• Nautical depths;
• Offline Wikipedia;
• Offline Wikivoyage - Travel guides.
OsmAnd Pro (subscription)
• OsmAnd Cloud (backup and restore);
• Cross-platform;
• Hourly map updates;
• Weather plugin;
• Elevation widget;
• Customise route line;
• External sensors support (ANT+, Bluetooth);
• Online Elevation profile.
Latest Version
4.7.17
June 07, 2024
OsmAnd
Travel & Local
Android
11,947,530
Free
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User Reviews
Garrett Rinquest
4 years ago
I really wanted to like this app. Like many others, I've been wanting to ditch Google wherever I can. I'm fine with the ugly UI and slightly disorganized features (which there at a ton of). The issue for me was that I couldn't search by an address. I had to find the nearest cross street. If I could just type an address into the search bar and have it show up, I would hands down use this instead of Google maps. As of now, I'll probably keep using Google until I find a better option.
Scott Braden
4 years ago
Have been using this app (paid) for years now for bicycling / exploring remote areas without cell services. Works great with a cheap android phone on my handlebars, more capabilities and larger, better display than dedicated bike products like Garmin / Wahoo. Pro: offline maps of the entire planet, excellent detail, highly configurable / customizable, so many features, large worldwide user base, it just plain works. Con: lots of menu's / options / configuration settings can be a bit confusing. But that's pretty minor. I recommend it to everyone who travels in areas of poor cell coverage. Has saved me from wandering "lost" many times when cell signal unexpectedly dropped.
A Google user
5 years ago
An essential app. Never an issue with maps becoming expired & deleted out from under your feet like 'That Map App' we all are first given However, I would like to make a feature request, as there's a few things missing that ought to be important When you have recorded and or imported tracks as much as I have, you will find that there's no way to decide if you should delete a track while in the GPX menu. There needs to be a way to 'show track on map', in order to decide if it's important It would also be nice if the track log menu could organize tracks based on wherever the on map locator has been left at, either the current location, or when you move the locator to a intended destination The track recordings are named by date & time, but after a year goes by, I couldn't recall which day I was at any particular location. So when it comes time to go back to a favorite campsite, or whatever it is, I have no practical way to choose the correct recording. This is why organizing the tracks by map position would be very useful For GPX users, look at: android/data/net.osmand/files/tracks Custom tracks can go here. Recorded tracks are in the 'rec' folder
Jeff Jones
3 years ago
Almost impossible to plan a route with multiple destinations unless you want to backtrack over 50% or more. This was never a good app for such route mapping, now it is just an excercise in utter frustration and essentially useless. If you need to plan more than a start point and end point, look elsewhereqa1. There is also a HUGE number of roads listed as paved that are actually dirt roads. Edit - it now only navigates from beginning to end point of existing loop routes. Ugh. Ended subscription.
Eric Rice
4 years ago
Mediocre at first. Then I actually really like it now. I have submitted thousands of map edits in my area and am building it out to help with providing an alternative to big tech maps. Things I learned. If editing, addresses on buildings only get updated on monthly map updates. Which typically happen at the end of the month for update cutoff and roll out for download within 2 weeks of end of the month. I look forward to continuing my contributions and putting places on the map!
A Google user
6 years ago
Gives directions very poorly, with very little notice. Doesn't say what street you're turning on most of the time, and is constantly "recalculating" even when you follow the directions. Worst navigation app I've tried yet. EDIT: I tried it on several routes in Albuquerque, NM, and it never gave more than 2/10 mile notice about a turn, except on the freeway, where it gave 4/10 mile. The only street names it gave for turns were the major intersections. Residential, business, or even minor through-streets were rarely, if ever, named. Thinking about it, I suppose it's possible that this was why the app kept saying "recalculating," since I had no way to verify if I was turning on the correct street, or a street too early, since the only notice I got was 2/10 mi or "turn right."
CJ C
3 years ago
It's good, but lacks refinement with address searching. Doesn't find exact street number, often doesn't find streets due to mis-spellings in the map itself. Directions often go down non-connected streets or those that no longer exist for years. Can find some things by name, like schools, but is only about 75% accurate. Doesn't account for traffic. Features are good here, though. I like the overlay option and the offline maps, and setting parking spots, but interface takes getting used to.
Nolan Morris
4 years ago
I love that this app is not creepy, and doesn't steal/sell your data, and the UI seems easy to use (looks recently updated). BUT I can't give higher than 1 star, because it completely failed to find any addresses at all. I understand it's based on an open source map, but really, navigating to an address is the only thing a driving nav app needs to do well.
Chinook_ADV
3 years ago
I really do love this app for off-grid navigation. It's really really really powerful and not at all intuitive. Many of the functions are buried in menus and submenus, so something as s simple as uploading and following a GPX file is really tedious. I also wish it could work off of routes developed on Basecamp or something. That said, it has all the features you could want, and is my main nav for more complex trips. For simple nav, I just use Google Maps and download the maps.
A Google user
5 years ago
I was looking to turn my old phone into an offline GPS nav system. This app looked like it would be great for that. I download the map for my state and tried to type in a few addresses to which I wanted to navigate. It could only seem to find landmarks or named buildings, but not a simple street address. A navigation system that doesn't have that feature is worthless to me. I removed the app.
Willa Jabir
2 years ago
This is powerful app with lots of options that you can customize. Some aren't obvious what they do. So there is a steep learning curve. The maps are open source maps that are updated by users so some areas/addresses are lacking. They do improve daily but slowly. The app has profiles so you can have various options set for different vehicles or scenarios. After you get your profile(s) fine tuned and display adjusted to your personal preferences, it is a 4.5 app. Still few bugs/errors like others.
A Google user
5 years ago
I read that with this app you could customize what info you wanted shown on your map. I even read it would show road surface quality which would be awesome out here in the country. There was no setup tutorial and it wasn't user friendly at all. Maybe the review I read was way wrong, but even still I couldn't get directions, it said my starting point was too far from the nearest road. I live litterally 100 feet from a county road. The map only showed state highways and interstates. Useless.
A Google user
5 years ago
An amazing navigational app and location search tool! I love that I can see opening and closing times for places that have them updated on OSM. The interface is a bit daunting and takes a bit of practice/research to understand, but the online documentation for OSMAnd is wonderful as well, and after that learning curve it's an incredibly powerful tool. I use it any time I travel, and also to double check any updates I make to OSM!
Mickey Deagle
3 years ago
A flexible, powerful navigation app. My only real complaint—and it's becoming a deal breaker—is the inability to gracefully handle skipped waypoints when I'm following a route and there's a detour or I've missed a turn. I'll keep using the app, but if I find an app that handles missed/skipped waypoints better, that'll be the one that ultimately wins me over. I'm tired of the app relentlessly instructing me to make a u-turn and then another u-turn just to stay "on route."
R C
1 year ago
I wanted like this as I am a huge open source fan but in the end searching for an address is just a mess even if you put in the exact address. Without this basic functionality it's just not a functional GPS navigation system. I do however want to give credit for the effort by the tream, thank you. That said I've removed it from my phone and moved on to greener pastures....but would love to come back and support this project in the future.
Timothy Hoogland
1 year ago
Literally cannot enter an address for most homes and navigate there. This app is very poorly designed. The developer responded and it's Not helpful. I'm not searching by street. This is a good effort but a joke for everyday usability. If it ever wants to rival Google maps or others, they need BASIC features like navigating to addresses working.
LuvAbba LuvU
1 year ago
Local maps (up to whole world, or just small areas for small devices.) Must-have for trips through unserviced areas. Has bluetooth/mous uses. Plans most fast routes for cars, busses, bicycles, horses or walkers. Shows distances, durations and how much down/up for routes. Features to record custom routes. Worth Osmand+ for local Wikipedia articles and 3d views.
Dan Young
1 year ago
THE open source option for mapping. I paid for the premium version to support this promising project, and you should too. Pros: after the last upgrade this app has the most detailed, and most visually appealing maps I've ever seen. Cons: an overly complicated UI and a search function that never seems to work. I'm sure the team is working on it though. This app has come a long way over the years, and I'm excited to see where it ends up going.
B Grant
11 months ago
Accidentally started a navigation route. There response below makes NO sense. Theres NO OBVIOUS WAY TO TURN OFF OR STOP THAT ROUTE. How about some Onscreen controls for Navigation??? Instead, I have been mining the menus just to remove this route from the screen, cancel it, or stop it. As it is, the only utility of the app is a quick view of good topo maps. Using it for navigation is a frustrating, high learning curve.
Samuel Santaella
1 year ago
I finally found out how to change the rendering engine to OpenGL, and it is so much better than when I last reviewed this, making this an unquestionable keeper now. (In short, I was disappointed coming from OsmAnd on iPhone.) If first time, I highly recommend going into OsmAnd settings and changing this. Although this isn't my app of choice for looking up addresses, offline maps and offline navigation do work excellently, esp. for urban/utility cycling. Also fun to explore around in sometimes.
