SESelf-Perfection·Sep 28, 2026
And yet problems exist. Live Updates are not rendered if both OsmAnd V2 rendering and hardened memory allocator are enabled: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/20190
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I wish OsmAnd all the best, but ever since the app was created, its map rendering performance has been stuck in the 2010s, no matter how much faster our devices have gotten…
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
20 sourcesSeveral minutes for a few km of car driving¹ is not normal. Even the old A* method didn't take that long on my first Android phone from like 2012
If you want this obvious bug solved, you'll have to provide more info, such as
- what hardware is this on,
- what software version,
- what map version(s),
- an example route where you can reproduce it (even if that's "every route" for you, it might still be specific to your region of the world),
- which profile you have selected, assuming you haven't modified it (otherwise, export the profile so we can try it)...
I don't know how you're expecting HN to narrow down the issue from a mere "it's slow for me". You'll also have more luck in an OsmAnd community such as on https://telegram.me/OsmAndMaps or elsewhere. If you think it'll be reproducible, then the bug tracker would be the right place https
Read the rest
://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues
¹ maybe walking has to visit every alley and be slower if your profile modifications can't use the HH optimisation. You'll have to share details if you don't want people to have to make assumptions like this
Neat!
These might be useful to integrate with:
OpenStreetMap (OSM) Wiki > OpenSeaMap: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenSeaMap
https://map.openseamap.org/
"Depth Data for Nautical Charts" https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/discussions/18116
In Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aidsIn OpenStreetMap, which is the data source used by most of these navigation apps, the relevant key is traffic_calming.
I have not found any navigation app that preferentially chooses streets with traffic_calming features, such as speed humps. I recently suggested that in OSMAnd and got no traction [0].
[0] https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/21320
In Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trailsSlightly offtopic
I have OsmAnd ( https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd ) on my phone, download the basemaps, download my (small) country data (both sourced from open street maps), and with an app + ~1GB of data, I get the maps and full navigation within my country, POIs, etc., and can add other countries when needed.
Is there something similar for a PC? I can download data from open street maps, but then I need postgres, postgis, a tile server and styles and apache running just to generate the tiles. Is there anything portable (short of running osmand in an android virtualbox) for offline navigation on a linux pc? QGIS can display vectors, but I wasn't able to easily style the data... navigation is a no-go there too. anything else?
In 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector mapsOSMAnd tracks users using a secret supercookie by default because the developer wants metrics. This is done without consent. The defensiveness of the developer with regards to such unethical tracking means that I will never use any software they ever release.
https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/15058
Organic Maps does not, and should be supported instead.
In Organic MapsIt may be a bug of Android:
Newer Android versions have further locker down sd card access. The implementation is apparently super slow for stuff like what Osmand uses. Dont put the map data onto the sd card or use one of the predefined locations
https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/12046
https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/13254
Edit:
If that is not the culprit then check if OpenGL rendering is activated.
You can also deactivate unneeded features from being rendered (buildings, areas, etc). And lastly there are smaller road-only maps (no POI data and no adresses though)
In maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/mapsSome are, but it maight be CPU heavy depending on your platform, acceleration and the numbers of layers/information you have on the screen.
Android application OsmAnd is notoriously slow because of this: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/discussions/11961
In The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)Thank you, filed here:
https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/13842
In F-Droid – alternative to Google Play storeI suggest to raise an issue here: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd
In F-Droid – alternative to Google Play storeI wish OsmAnd all the best, but ever since the app was created, its map rendering performance has been stuck in the 2010s, no matter how much faster our devices have gotten since then.
There is justification for it for sure (see https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+slow... for a few), and I love OSM out of principle, but as a product, it will remain my last resort until the user experience is tolerable.
In Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigationApparently that used to be true but is no longer. OsmAnd (OpenStreetMap navigation app) is releasing their Android Auto app later this year: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/3391
In Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominanceOsmAnd (open source) [1] is working on it! [2] Here's the Github Issue [3].
[1]: https://osmand.net/
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OsmAnd/comments/l17r3l/any_updates_...
[3]: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/3391
In Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in ChromeI'm pretty sure OsmAnd renders all the roads, buildings etc on demand, which is why it's slow. It has to be able to rerender since it supports different styles, but it doesn't seem like it caches the results or prerenders adjacent tiles.
EDIT: performance issues seem to not be due to rendering the vector data[1].
[1] https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/8370
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