• T156@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    A little confused, is this basically the same thing as Open Street Maps, just in app form?

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      24 minutes ago

      Yep it uses a selection of the most important data from OSM because the entire thing would be too huge to keep on your phone. You download the map in sections so region/city based but you can also just get an entire country which will be a few GB.

      It can import/export bookmarks and record and import gpx tracks. Has TTS support and you can even edit things (like opening hours and stuff) if you have an OSM account.

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      2 hours ago

      They use OSM as source for maps, yes.

      Not sure how much they add, aside from offline functionality.

      Other apps add extra data sources.