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OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps


<p>There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.</p>

Organic Maps can in theory record tracks but only at its standard resolution (which seems, to be every 16 metres or so), and can't call out to an external site. Both of these involved driving slowly, and the one per second recording of OsmAnd captures this detail while the Organic Maps track loses it. At the end of the trip, the intervals become even more obvious; at the NW corner of the car park, I drove slowly while waiting for a clear road, and Organic Maps loses that detail.

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