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In your opinion what is the most important feature missing in organic maps (compared to OSMAnd)?

Importing GPX tracks and displaying it on the map. For my bike trips I do my planning in advance on a computer using brouter or openrouteservice, then import the created file into OSMAnd.

We were writing about missing the same feature, for the same reason, at the same time. :'-)

GPX import was already implemented several months ago.

Thank you, I found it! You have to click the star icon.

OrganicMaps supports this too though?

It's new, many people aren't aware.

For me the biggest missing feature is an easy way to sync bookmarks/saved places.

You can manually export it but it gives me a little stress that one day I'll just lose my phone after not having exported for a while.

At the very minimum it would be great to auto export the file every X days to a specified location so I can auto sync it with syncthing or something.

But a nice setup would also be supporting webdav (nextcloud) to just drop the file there automatically.

This is the related issue but doesn't have too much traction. https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/622

- Good contour lines and hill shading! I live in Switzerland and it's considerably harder to understand the terrain without these features.

- Configurable POIs. In Organic Maps I can show POIs for a few common categories, but many are missing (for example EV charging stations). And I can only show one type of POI at once on the map. In OSMand, I can show POIs for "drinking water, EV charging stations and public bathrooms" at the same time.

- Track recording and especially live tracking (OSMand has a very nice plugin for that, which works with services like Traccar).

- I miss the ability to make Wikivoyage articles (and their associated POIs) available offline, which is really useful when travelling.

- OsmAnd's flags feel more ephemeral, whereas in Organic Maps I'm just adding them as regular bookmarks under "My places", which make them harder to distinguish from bookmarks I want to keep long-term.

- Bus lines and stops are pretty useful if you're taking the bus somewhere unfamiliar.

But those are pretty minor; I've still switched to Organic Maps just because it's so much easier to use (ironically, that probably is because it has fewer features).

Also, I just keep both installed just in case, so I can always fall back to OsmAnd :)

Oh also, OsmAnd's bicycle routes seem better (shorter/prettier routes)? Though I'm not even sure if Organic Maps's directions are for bicycle - the icon looks like a motorcycle, so they might be motorcycle directions.

Android Auto compatibility. Although I think it's a planned feature.

Yeah they're actively working on it. Though apple car play is out and works!

If anyone knows android dev maybe you can checkout one of these smaller issues they're having.

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/4096

The ability to import a gpx track, for instance.

GPX import was already implemented several months ago.

Is gpx more powerful than kml? I see that in my lists I have circular paths and other things, so I must have imported it to OrganicMaps

track recording

That's planned, now as we fixed some background location-related issues, nothing is blocking the track recording feature.

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