[chbot] Open street map on adroid

[Andrew Errington]

Re: TUMONZ
Yes, I suppose it was nearly 10 years ago I paid for TUMONZ, and it
was definitely worth it at the time.  These days I contribute to OSM
and also try to use (and recommend) OSM as much as possible.  It
slightly sucks, but improvement is inexorable, despite the fact it
will take years.

A

On 14 February 2014 15:40, Volker Kuhlmann <list0570 at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Fri 14 Feb 2014 17:25:48 NZDT +1300, Andrew Errington wrote:
>
>> If you just want to *look* at the data then Navit is a reasonable
>> choice, but take a look at OSMAND too.
>
> Thanks Andrew! Someone made a list sorted by popularity
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Papou/Android
> and osmand is the top oss one, ticks all the boxes and is maintained.
> Navit is way back. Donating $10 to osmand is worth it if it works
> properly.
>
>> Regarding NZ in particular, a long time ago I discovered TUMONZ
>
> Uhhmm, my interest in forking out 400 bucks for a piece if Microsquish
> that runs on neither my mobile nor non-mobile computers is less than
> zero. 10 years ago it may have been good (with limits), these days
> donating to topomaps.co.nz makes way more sense.
>
>> Because I was curious- how to get fresh data for OSMAND:
>> https://code.google.com/p/osmand/wiki/HowToDownloadData
>
> Super! Thanks indeed. Looks like there's a clear winner here.
>
>
> On Fri 14 Feb 2014 17:36:10 NZDT +1300, follower wrote:
>
>> FWIW I've used MapDroyd in the past to view offline OSM data on an
>> Android device: <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapDroyd>
>
> Unfortunately it's not only not FOSS, it's also dead-ended.
>
> In what way did you find the FOSS navi apps lacking?
>
>
> Thanks both for your recommendations,
>
> Volker
>
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