can you speed up osmand? it is incredibly slow on my pixel 6 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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It improved slightly with opengl but it's still very slow to render offline maps after years.

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[-] loganb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Try Organic Maps.

It's not as fully featured as OSMAnd but my goodness is it faster.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not any faster on my 1+8T but it sure does seem to work much better overall!

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

that's not really the same but thx

[-] pmcdonald@sfba.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

@GravitySpoiled Sorry to hear you're having problems. I also have a Pixel 6, have used OsmAnd for ~a decade and haven't seen anything too severe. The only maps I keep on hand are the World maps and the US state of California, including contour, hillshade supplements and the wiki. OsmAnd says it's 4.1 GB worth of data. I do have lots of free space on the phone though.
I did bulk up on this same phone when on a long bike tour a while back, adding the files for British Columbia, and the States of WA and OR in addition to CA, and their contours and wikis and performance was OK. I used it at freeway speed yesterday and it seemed to function fine. Wonder what's going on w/ your phone?

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

thank you. that is weird! I am using osmand for more than 3 years or so and it has been slow forever, only opengl changed it a bit. on iphones it's smooth. It's like android is second class citizen.

[-] pmcdonald@sfba.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

@GravitySpoiled OSMand began on Android, hence the name, and only became available on iOS much later. I recall the original iOS releases received lower reviews until quite a bit of patching was done. Strange it's running poorly for you. Their support and forums are pretty active - have you taken this up there? Best of luck.

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

hence the name

AND is not coming from Android. Osmand is short for "OpenStreetMap Automated Navigation Directions". Source

IOS version is much newer, that's true though

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 2 weeks ago

@infeeeee @pmcdonald @openstreetmap
Sure, that's what they say it stands for _now_, but did it always stand for that?

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 2 weeks ago

@GravitySpoiled @pmcdonald @openstreetmap

It's been slow for me for ages, the update to OpenGL barely changed a thing. I don't really think it's my phone's fault if OrganicMaps manages to not have this problem.

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