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Contribute to OSM via OsmAnd

OsmAnd supports directly contributing to the OSM database, both online and offline. Corrections are either uploaded to the OSM database instantly, or in offline mode, must be manually uploaded later.

First, you will need to register with OSM.

Then, in OsmAnd go to Settings > Plugins and activate OSM Editing plugin.

Finally, go to Settings > OSM editing and enter your OSM user name and password.

To add a POI

• Tap (long tap) on a location on the map you want the POI to appear.
• Tap the gray location box.
• Select «Create POI».
• Type in the information in each of the fields. The other box automatically adds the key for each value selected.
  • Adding address is still a little clunky but can be done.
  • Select «Advanced Mode».
  • Select «Add Tag».
  • Type «A» in the tag box. You can’t see the whole field, so you just have to remember what spot each value is in.
  • Type the value in.
• Tap Commit.

To record and submit GPX tracks

• Go to Settings > Plugins and activate the Record your trips plugin.
• Go to the map and tap the button labeled GPX in the top-right corner of the screen, below the button with the satellite dish. This will start recording your trip.
• When you have finished your trip, tap the button again to stop recording.
• Go to My Places > All Tracks.
• Find the recorded track, and tap its menu (3 dots on right hand side)
• Select Export
• Edit details if required and tap YES

stories

• Riding with Jessica
• Hiking by Olivier
• Mikhail about his experience
• Arseniy about his experience
• Professional motorcycle adventure traveler
• 13,500 km from Brussels to Tokyo
• Rogatka from Japan
• Bart and his story
• Story from Arabia
• Enric and his traveling experience
• Remo and his 4×4 travels. Part 2
• Car Trophy with OsmAnd
• Pieter with OsmAnd from 2011
• Bike Trophy with OsmAnd
• The Trophy from Paris to Beijing
• Kuba from Poland
• Brunaud and Randovelo
• Filip and his story
• Helen and her story
• Andreas and his story
• Adrian and mototoursJapan
• Yurik RZR offroad
• Remo 4×4
• Leonid travels
• Paul and cycling
• Ilya offroad

OsmAnd Sample

OsmAnd Sample represents a possiblity to built an application on top of OsmAnd core. OsmAnd provides an java library with lots of functions included. Please take a look at the source code. OsmAnd Sample is not an API use case and the LICENSE of OsmAnd Sample is the same as the OsmAnd application itself. It provides a possiblity to package and distribute it independently from OsmAnd.

License

The license https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/blob/master/LICENSEfor the OsmAnd application is rather big. There are 2 important things: OsmAnd uses third-party code only with permissive licenses like (LGPL, MIT, Apache) and OsmAnd code itself copyrighted by OsmAnd BV is distributed under GPLv2 license with exception of distributing it on Google Play markets without permission. That provides a possibility to build any application for personal usage or build an opensource application under GPLv2 license (cause OsmAnd is not a platform and all the code built on top of the core must be also licensed as GPL).

If you want to build an application for internal usage, please contact business@osmand.net, in some cases exemption from GPLv2 cody copyrighted by OsmAnd BV are provided. For the rest of the code please double check the list from the LICENSE which consists only of permissive licenses (LGPL, MIT, Apache).

Описание карт и навигации — OsmAnd

OsmAnd (OSM Automated Navigation Directions) — это приложение для карт и навигации с доступом к бесплатным, глобальным и высококачественным данным OpenStreetMap (OSM).

Наслаждайтесь голосовым и оптическим навигатором, просматривайте POI (точки интереса), создавайте и управляйте дорожками GPX, используя визуализацию контурных линий и информацию о высоте (через плагин), выбор между вождением, велоспортом, пешеходными режимами, редактирование OSM и многое другое.

Некоторые из основных функций:

навигация

• Работает онлайн (быстро) или в автономном режиме (без роуминга, когда вы находитесь за границей)

• Пошаговое голосовое сопровождение (записанные и синтезированные голоса)

• Дополнительное руководство по прокладке, отображение названия улицы и расчетное время прибытия

• Поддержка промежуточных точек в вашем маршруте

• Автоматическая повторная маршрутизация всякий раз, когда вы отклоняетесь от маршрута

• Поиск мест по адресам, по типу (например: ресторан, гостиница, автозаправка, музей) или по географическим координатам

Просмотр карты

• Отображение позиции и ориентации

• При желании выровняйте изображение по компасу или по направлению движения

• Сохраняйте свои самые важные места в качестве избранных

• Отображать POI (точки интереса) вокруг вас

• Отображение специализированных онлайн-плит, спутникового представления (от Bing), различных накладок, таких как гусеничные / навигационные дорожки GPX и дополнительные слои с настраиваемой прозрачностью

• Возможность отображения географических названий на английском, местном или фонетическом

Данные OSM

• Высококачественная информация из лучших совместных проектов мира

• Доступны данные OSM для каждой страны или региона

• Компактные автономные векторные карты обновляются не реже одного раза в месяц

• Выбор между полными данными региона и только дорожной сетью (пример: вся Япония составляет 700 МБ или 200 МБ только для дорожной сети)

Функции безопасности

• Опциональное автоматическое переключение режима «день / ночь»

• Дополнительный дисплей ограничения скорости, с напоминанием, если вы его превысите

• Дополнительное масштабируемое по скорости масштабирование

• Поделитесь своим местоположением, чтобы ваши друзья могли найти вас

Велосипед и пешеходные особенности

• Просмотр пешеходных, пешеходных и велосипедных дорожек, отлично подходящих для активного отдыха

• Специальные режимы маршрутизации и отображения для велосипедов и пешеходов

• Дополнительные остановки общественного транспорта (автобус, трамвай, поезд), включая названия линий

• Дополнительная запись о поездке в локальный файл GPX или онлайн-сервис

• Опциональный дисплей скорости и высоты

• Отображение контурных линий и затенения на холсте (через дополнительный плагин)

Непосредственно внести вклад в OSM

• Сообщить об ошибках

• Загрузка треков GPX в OSM прямо из приложения

• Добавить POI и напрямую загрузить их в OSM (или позже, если отключен)

• Опционная запись отключения также в фоновом режиме (пока устройство находится в спящем режиме)

OsmAnd является открытым исходным кодом и активно развивается. Каждый может внести свой вклад в приложение, сообщив об ошибках, улучшив перевод или кодируя новые функции. Проект находится в оживленном состоянии постоянного улучшения всеми этими формами взаимодействия разработчиков и пользователей. Прогресс проекта также основывается на финансовых взносах для финансирования кодирования и тестирования новых функциональных возможностей.

Приблизительное покрытие и качество карты:

• Западная Европа: ****

• Восточная Европа: ***

• Россия: ***

• Северная Америка: ***

• Южная Америка: **

• Азия: **

• Япония и Корея: ***

• Средний Восток: **

• Африка: **

• Антарктика: *

Большинство стран по всему миру доступны в виде загрузок!

Получите надежный навигатор в вашей стране — будь то Франция, Германия, Мексика, Великобритания, Испания, Нидерланды, США, Россия, Бразилия или любой другой.

Как скачать и установить Карты и навигация — OsmAnd APK на компьютере — Windows XP/7/8/10, Mac Os:

• Вам нужно скачать и установить Андроид эмулятор PC
• Запустить Андроид эмулятор PC
• Зайти в Гугл Плей Маркет и выбрать нужное вам приложение для запуска на компьютере

OpenStreetMap map data and the OsmAnd application

OpenStreetMap (map data and server side components) and OsmAnd (Android / Java software for mobile use and navigation) are two large, open projects, therefore support concerns need to be initially divided between OpenStreetMap «data» issues, and OsmAnd «software» issues. For instance, problems with the underlying map data (key and value omissions, way connection errors, inconsistencies, etc.) can cause OsmAnd to navigate inefficiently and miss the very best routes. Once the underlying map data is completely cleansed or fully complete OsmAnd software should produce expected results.

The OsmAnd rendered map data files are frequently updated, and each update typically has hundreds if not thousands of corrections and additions. Likewise, Points of Interest (POI) data in particular requires constant vigilance to remain relevant and accurate with numerous organizations moving, or going in or out of business each month. Supplying correcting map information to the OpenStreetMap organization is very easy. You can simply just report problems, and that by itself is very helpful. Or you can actually roll up your sleeves and edit the map data directly. After registering (a simple, two-minute process) you can use the free, very simple to use programs to edit the underlying data directly.

Please do your share of the hard work it is to keep the underlying OpenStreetMap data in pristine condition.

Some advanced fragments of information about OsmAnd offline vector map data

• offline map data files that can be used with OsmAnd have *.obf as file extension.
• in latest versions of these map files all vector map data, POIs and address indexes for offline search are included.
• you can generate your own *.obf files by using OsmAndMapCreator.
• when you have several *.obf files for single regions of a certain country, you can combine them with inspector.bat or inspector.sh that is delivered with OsmAndMapCreator. Start this script on a command line without any parameters to see all options and proceed.
• Maybe there is a named street in the OSM data, but OsmAnd cannot find it via its offline address search? Run the above mentioned inspector with parameter -v and .obf >list.txt … this will give you a text file with all places that are within that obf file and all streets that are associated to that place. Thus you can find out whether OsmAnd’s street list is incomplete (this can have several reasons like missing administrative borders etc.).

stories

• Riding with Jessica
• Hiking by Olivier
• Mikhail about his experience
• Arseniy about his experience
• Professional motorcycle adventure traveler
• 13,500 km from Brussels to Tokyo
• Rogatka from Japan
• Bart and his story
• Story from Arabia
• Enric and his traveling experience
• Remo and his 4×4 travels. Part 2
• Car Trophy with OsmAnd
• Pieter with OsmAnd from 2011
• Bike Trophy with OsmAnd
• The Trophy from Paris to Beijing
• Kuba from Poland
• Brunaud and Randovelo
• Filip and his story
• Helen and her story
• Andreas and his story
• Adrian and mototoursJapan
• Yurik RZR offroad
• Remo 4×4
• Leonid travels
• Paul and cycling
• Ilya offroad

OsmAnd Sample

OsmAnd Sample represents a possiblity to built an application on top of OsmAnd core. OsmAnd provides an java library with lots of functions included. Please take a look at the source code. OsmAnd Sample is not an API use case and the LICENSE of OsmAnd Sample is the same as the OsmAnd application itself. It provides a possiblity to package and distribute it independently from OsmAnd.

License

The license https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/blob/master/LICENSEfor the OsmAnd application is rather big. There are 2 important things: OsmAnd uses third-party code only with permissive licenses like (LGPL, MIT, Apache) and OsmAnd code itself copyrighted by OsmAnd BV is distributed under GPLv2 license with exception of distributing it on Google Play markets without permission. That provides a possibility to build any application for personal usage or build an opensource application under GPLv2 license (cause OsmAnd is not a platform and all the code built on top of the core must be also licensed as GPL).

If you want to build an application for internal usage, please contact business@osmand.net, in some cases exemption from GPLv2 cody copyrighted by OsmAnd BV are provided. For the rest of the code please double check the list from the LICENSE which consists only of permissive licenses (LGPL, MIT, Apache).

Examples of OSM POI categories supported in OsmAnd

Wherever OpenStreetMap POI categories are known to be rendered and/or searchable in OsmAnd, its corresponding key or tag page should indicate that OsmAnd supports it.

food (bar, bbq, biergarten, cafe, drinking_water, fast_food, food_court, pub, restaurant)

education (college, kindergarten, library, school, university)

emergency (access_point, ambulance_station, fire_extinguisher, fire_flapper, fire_hose, fire_hydrant, fire_station, phone, police, ses_station, siren)

transportation (bicycle_parking, bicycle_rental, bus_station, car_rental, car_sharing, car_wash, ferry_terminal, fuel, grit_bin, parking, taxi)

finance (atm, bank, bureau_de_change)

healthcare (baby_batch, dentist, doctors, first_aid, hospital, pharmacy, veterinary)

entertainment (architect_office, arts_centre, brothel, cinema, community_center, fountain, nightclub, sauna, stripclub, studio, theatre)

tourism (alpine_hut, artwork, attraction, camp_site, caravan_site, chalet, guest_house, hostel, hotel, information, motel, museum, picnic_site, theme_park, viewpoint, zoo)

historic (archaeological_site, battlefield, boundary_stone, castle, fort, memorial, monument, ruins, wayside_cross, wayside_shrine, wreck)

natural (bay, beach, cave_entrance, cliff, coastline, fell, glacier, heath, land, marsh, mud, peak, sand, scree, scrub, spring, stone, tree, volcano, water, wetland)

shop (alcohol, bakery, beauty, beverages, bicycle, books, boutique, butcher, car, car_repair, charity, chemist, clothes, computer, confectionery, deli, department_store, doityourself, dry_cleaning, electronics, fabrics, farm, florist, funeral_directors, furniture, garden_centre, general, gift, glaziery, greengrocer, hairdresser, hardware, hearing_aids, hifi, ice_cream, jewelry, kiosk, laundry, mall, massage, money_lender, motorcycle, newsagent, optician, organic, outdoor, pawnbroker, second_hand, shoes, sports, stationery, supermarket, tattoo, toys, travel_agency, variety_store, video)

leisure (common, dance, dog_park, fishing, garden, golf_course, ice_rink, nature_reserve, marina, miniature_golf, park, pitch, playground, sports_centre, slipway, stadium, track, water_park)

sport (10pin, archery, athletics, australian_football, baseball, basketball, beachvolleyball, boules, bowls, canoe, chess, climbing, cricket, cricket_nets, croquet, cycling, diving, dog_racing, equestrian, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, horse_racing, ice_stock, korfball, motor, multi, orienteering, paddle_tennis, paragliding, pelota, racquet, rowing, rugby, shooting, skateboard, skating, skiing, soccer, swimming, table_tennis, team_handball, tennis, toboggan, volleyball)

other (bench, clock, courthouse, crematorium, embassy, emergency_phone, fire_hydrant, fire_station, grave_yard, hunting_stand, internet_access, marketplace, place_of_worship, police, post_box, post_office, prison, public_building, recycling, shelter, telephone, toilets, townhall, vending_machine, waste_basket, waste_disposal)

Тепловые карты треков

В Страве есть очень крутая штука под названием тепловая карта треков. По ней сразу всё наглядно видно, где люди ходят и ездят на велосипедах.

К примеру, на скриншоте справа отчётливо видна популярная у велосипедистом тропа, отсутствующая на карте OpenStreetMap.

Чтобы подключить в OsmAnd слой тепловой карты, воспользуемся функцией «Карта покрытия». Для его работы будет требоваться мобильный интернет, но в наши дни это не проблема.

Сперва нужно зарегистрировать тепловую карту как источник карт в OsmAnd.

Нажмите кнопку «Слои» → «Источник карты» → последний пункт «Задать/отредактировать» → заполняем данные формы. Название — Strava, URL — http://globalheat.strava.com/tiles/cycling/color3/{0}/{1}/{2}.png, остальное по-умолчанию. Можно варьировать тип активности (cycling/running) и набор цветов (color1..color7).

Переключите «Источник карты» обратно на векторную карту.

Нажмите кнопку «Слои» → «Карта покрытия» → выберите «Strava».

В качестве слоя покрытия может выступать не только Strava. Есть и ряд других не менее интересных вариантов.
Тепловая карта с bikemap.net, URL http://tile03.maptoolkit.net/bikemap/{0}/{1}/{2}.png
Карта треков с openstreetmap.org, URL http://b.gps-tile.openstreetmap.org/lines/{0}/{1}/{2}.png
Слой оттенения рельефа, URL http://c.tiles.wmflabs.org/hillshading/{0}/{1}/{2}.png

Customize routing engine

In some cases you might want to extend or adjust routing experience of OsmAnd, so you could add extra parameters, add extra barriers or change some penalties. Please take a look at routing.xml. OsmAnd routing is using 2 directional A* algorithm based on fastest time (= distance/(speed*priority) + penalties) . It is a pretty easy format. It is divided into 7 sections (evaluation groups):

• access (1 allow, -1 not allow)
• speed (number that presents speed in kmh)
• priority (number between 0 and 1) — a multiplier to the speed and it is still bound to maxSpeed, so minimum(speed * multiplier, maxSpeed) will be used for A*
• oneway (1, -1 or 0) — used to clarify access based on direction of the movement
• penalty_transition (penalty in seconds) — used to define penalty when user goes from high class road to low class road. For example, motorway — 10, trunk — 15, if user goes from motorway to trunk penalty will be 5 seconds (=10 — 15). This penalty will be used by A* algorithm. There is no penalty if user goes from motorway to trunk and there is no penalty if route continues from motorway to motorway.
• obstacle (penalty in seconds) — defines penalty which is to the routing time
• obstacle_time (penalty in seconds) — defines penalty which is displayed to the user but it is not considered by routing engine i.e. obstacle_time — 2 hours, obstacle — 1 minute, on the shortest route engine will find a route using 1 minute obstacle but user will see that route time is 2 hours.

Стиль отображения карты

В варианте по-умолчанию стиль отрисовки карты довольно блеклый. Грунтовки и тропинки отображаются недостаточно ярко, и разглядеть их на экране телефона под ярким солнцем сложно.

Нажмите кнопку «Слои» (она же «настройка карты») → выберите режим, для которого вносите настройки: авто, вело или пешеход → прокрутите вниз до раздела «Отображение карты».

Для режима «велосипед» у меня настройки стоят следующие:
Стиль карты → Touring view
Дневной/ночной режим → Дневной
Транспорт → ничего
Подробности → отмечены «более подробно», «отображать тип покрытия», «отображать качество дорог», «отображать ограничения доступа»
Маршруты → отмечены «отображать веломаршруты», «пеший горный туризм по шкале SAC».

В стиле «Touring view» длина штриха показывает качество дороги или тропы. Длинный шрих — дорога хорошая, короткий — плохая (параметр tracktype:grade1..grade5 в OSM)

Галочка «отображать тип покрытия» рисует под дорогами толстый пунктир определённого цвета, цвет обозначает тип покрытия. Серый — асфальт, фиолетовый — гравий, светло-синий — бетон, желтый — песок, зелёный — трава и т.д.

Галочка «пеший горный туризм по шкале SAC» раскрашивает дороги и тропы в определённые цвета, если для них задана сложность преодоления. В горах эта информация мегаактуальна. Цветовая маркировка соответствует официальной таблице SAC OSM.

T1 → специальным цветом не выделяется
T2 → красный сплошной
T3 → красный пунктирный
T4 → синий сплошной
T5 → синий пунктирный

По опыту, уровень сложности T1 на велосипеде проезжаем. T2 — непрост, но обычно проезжаем. T3 — со значительными сложностями и только вниз, T4 и выше — шансов проехать на велосипеде практически нет.

Естественно, помимо обозначения уровня сложности нужно смотреть на уклон. Там, где тропа пересекает горизонтали слишком часто, на велосипеде делать нечего.

OsmAnd 4.0 (Android)

August 07, 2021

Great news for Android users!
We’re happy to announce the new 4.0 OsmAnd release for Android devices.
At this release, we changed our monetization and added new functions.
Update your OsmAnd, check out all the new features and let us know if you like everything!

New type of subscriptions.

At this release we made two purchase plans for OsmAnd:

• ‘Maps+’ plan has one-time payment and annual subscription. It’s light paid version with all needed features: monthly map updates, unlimited map downloads, offline Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, terrain maps, nautical depth.
• ‘OsmAnd Pro’ plan has monthly and annual subscriptions. It’s a full version with all paid features: OsmAnd Cloud, Pro features, hourly map updates, monthly map updates, unlimited map downloads, offline Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, terrain maps, nautical depth.

Full information you can find here.

Cloud backup and restore.

New paid function for subscription.

This function allows to make backup and restore all your OsmAnd data: settings, my places, resources. The size of storage is 3 — 50 — 1000 Gb.

Go to Menu → Settings → Backup & Restore. Select the data to be exported to backup storage.

‘OsmAnd Live’ updates (function of hourly map updates) moved to «Menu → Downloads maps → Updates».

We added for and rendering styles.

Now, there is an opportunity to download data in feet.

Updated «Trip recording» dialog

We improved and updated «Trip recording» dialog.
Now you can see more detailed information and graphs (Overview, Altitude, Speed) of your trip.
You can set needed parameters for recording and start record of your trip with one tap.

Tracks can now be colored by altitude, speed, or slope

Now, any track can be colored by altitude, speed, or slope.
Choose track on the map or in ‘My places → Tracks’, tap to ‘Appearance’ button.

Added option to change the route line appearance

Users can choose an appearance for route line:
Menu → Configure profile (choose app profile) → Profile appearance → Customize route line

Added online routing for navigation type

Users can choose online routing engines for navigation type:
Menu → Configure profile (choose app profile) → Navigation settings → Navigation type → ‘Offline/Online’ button

Here you can use predefined templates, or add OSRM, GraphHopper, OpenRouteService, or GPX online routing.

‘Distance by tap’ moved from ‘Radius ruler’ into a separate option

We separated ‘Distance by tap’ option from ‘Radius ruler’ tool.
Now, you can find it in Menu → Configure screen → Remaining elements → Distance by tap.

‘Plan Route’ improvements

At this release, we continued to improve our tool.

Now, you can see a landscape of your trip planning by switching between points and graphs (Overview, Altitude, Slope, Road type, Surface, Steepness) tabs.

We added the ability to change navigation options, accessing configure map and search without leaving ‘Plan route’ tool. Just, you need to click buttons on the screen.

Now, there is a new ‘Purchases’ screen with detailed information about purchasing and ‘Restore purchases’ button.

New Language dialogue for Voice prompts

Redesigned dialog for selecting the language for navigation instructions. Now it’s easier to choose and download the needed language and type of voice guidance:
Menu → Configure profile → Navigation settings → Voice prompts → Language.

What else is in this release?

• Various fixes for RTL
• Fixed issue with units of measurement
• Fixed issue with sharing more than one hundred favorite points
• Fixed crashes with Public transport navigation
• Improved search algorithms

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Горизонтали и оттенение рельефа

Настройки → Управление файлами карт → вкладка Загрузки → наверху нажмите там где «полные карты», выберите «Карты с затемнённым рельефом» и «Карты SRTM», выберите нужные районы и нажмите внизу «Загрузить».

Нажмите кнопку «Слои» и отметьте пункт «Слой рельефа местности».

Карта приобрела достойный вид, по ней наконец-то можно прочитать горный рельеф.

Вот как выглядит карта горной местности с вышеперечисленными настройками:

Обратите внимание на тропинки, прорисованные синим и красным на скриншоте слева (SAC scale) и на отображение покрытия дорог на скриншоте справа. Длина штриха показывает проходимость дороги/тропы

Create new rendering style

Creating new rendering style is possible without any change in the program. Style definitions could be difficult if you want to write it from scratch for example Nautical style or Default style (15K lines of code). It is advised to create a dependent style so you could change start changing style by small pieces. For example UniRS style contains mostly color redefinition and icon appearance.

To test rendering style you could use OsmAndMapCreator. In case you would like to use in the OsmAnd on device. You need to put the xml definition of the style into folder on sdcard (‘rendering’) next to other rendering styles.

Create new rendering style

Creating new rendering style is possible without any change in the program. Style definitions could be difficult if you want to write it from scratch for example Nautical style or Default style (15K lines of code). It is advised to create a dependent style so you could change start changing style by small pieces. For example UniRS style contains mostly color redefinition and icon appearance.

To test rendering style you could use OsmAndMapCreator. In case you would like to use in the OsmAnd on device. You need to put the xml definition of the style into folder on sdcard (‘rendering’) next to other rendering styles.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

• Open Source (GNU GPL Version 3), although some features are not free and visual elements are CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
• Possibility to use and edit maps completely offline and no time use limitations, like google maps for example
• Store for offline use vector maps and raster satellite images from various sources
• No ads, except one suggesting to buy paid version in configuration to get some paid features
• No trackers, although it has some analytics off by default, the user has the option to share with developers: only downloaded maps and screens visited. No location and position data is ever shared.
• No abusive permission requests, only ask permissions to use the related resource like: GPS location to use it, storage access to save maps, internet access to download maps, camera access to take photos, audio access to record audio…
• Very good customizable options shown during navigation like lanes, radar, max speed…
• Shows Wikimedia Commons and Mapillary images in POIs (only online)
• Can store offline maps and other data in SD card in Android version
• In POI details: quick phone call with just 2 taps, search nearby similar POIs, email and HTTP links, copy coordinates in 7 formats
• Also available in Android Go, an Android version for low resource devices, although the vector maps view is slow
• Save photo, video and audio notes
• Add quickly a POI with certain configured tags (fixed tags and fixed values or fixed tag and values prompt to enter data)
• Quick and simple upload changes to OpenStreetMap (POIs, notes and tracks)

Weaknesses

• No live traffic data
• No 3D view
• Limited voice instructions in embedded pre-recorded voices, but synthesized TTS (text to speech) voices can be used and are better maintained
• Very confusing options and configurations although it has a «clean» main screen interface
• Slow in some older smartphones
• Limited support to areas (can edit only tags in some areas) and relations (only shows route relations associated to POIs)
• A bit limited in some edits to upload to OpenStreetMap like: no tag presets, no edits in way tags
• Doesn’t support radar relations, only radar POIs/nodes, but is a planned feature
• No version available in Android Auto, but will be available in near future
• Limited in very long routes in offline app calculation, like 200km or more, although possible with Third-party routing (BRouter)
• Always shows the best route according to configuration like avoid tolls, unpaved roads, but not alternative routes

OsmAnd Support

OsmAnd is a large software project with millions of users worldwide. Relatively few people actually do the work to provide virtually everyone with a great application, built upon great data. If you have a support issue and resolve it through a convoluted, time consuming process, please go back and help update the FAQ, the Wiki, the Forum pages, etc. and make the path from support question to satisfactory answer as straight as possible. Make it much easier for the next person with the same issue to get to the solution. Help the coders document and best express the program’s features, and explain all the typical use-cases. If you have Java programming experience by all means refactor, streamline and better document the running code, add well tested new features, and take it upon yourself to tackle any open item on the Issue List.

High quality, timely support requires many hands to make light the lifting. Please pitch in and contribute to OSMand’s on-going support needs in any way you can.

Help for OsmAnd users

• You will notice that this link redirects to the page you are reading. Years ago, other sites (such as Google Code) hosted wiki information, but as of 2015, all old wiki resources (Google Code, Github, etc.) point to this location.

Help for OsmAnd coders and programmers

• There are two, equally important OSMand code bases:
  • Osmand-java A pure Java, maximum cross-platform library, which is not Android specific. No Android libraries are used here.
  • Osmand

    All Source Code, on GitHub

    The Android specific version. Use of various Android libraries, and the measured integration of constantly evolving Android GUI features are very much encouraged.

Customize routing engine

In some cases you might want to extend or adjust routing experience of OsmAnd, so you could add extra parameters, add extra barriers or change some penalties. Please take a look at routing.xml. OsmAnd routing is using 2 directional A* algorithm based on fastest time (= distance/(speed*priority) + penalties) . It is a pretty easy format. It is divided into 7 sections (evaluation groups):

• access (1 allow, -1 not allow)
• speed (number that presents speed in kmh)
• priority (number between 0 and 1) — a multiplier to the speed and it is still bound to maxSpeed, so minimum(speed * multiplier, maxSpeed) will be used for A*
• oneway (1, -1 or 0) — used to clarify access based on direction of the movement
• penalty_transition (penalty in seconds) — used to define penalty when user goes from high class road to low class road. For example, motorway — 10, trunk — 15, if user goes from motorway to trunk penalty will be 5 seconds (=10 — 15). This penalty will be used by A* algorithm. There is no penalty if user goes from motorway to trunk and there is no penalty if route continues from motorway to motorway.
• obstacle (penalty in seconds) — defines penalty which is to the routing time
• obstacle_time (penalty in seconds) — defines penalty which is displayed to the user but it is not considered by routing engine i.e. obstacle_time — 2 hours, obstacle — 1 minute, on the shortest route engine will find a route using 1 minute obstacle but user will see that route time is 2 hours.