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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org.

There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community

https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

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@osmand why are you so slow? this is a brand new samsung galaxy s24+ (cdn.fosstodon.org)

submitted 2 months ago by mamus@fosstodon.org to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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@osmand why are you so slow? this is a brand new samsung galaxy s24+

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if it's a cache/internet issue. Yes, zooming to extreme levels causes some delay. But scrolling through a map zoomed at a reasonable level should catch up very quickly on both offline and online map layers. At least, it does for me, and my phone is like 4+ years old.

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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This is an offline render, internet speed shouldn't have any effect.

The lack of caching of previously rendered areas is annoying.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That is annoying.

Even though I use an offline layer, the online is actually faster to render. It's like the cache system is broken, even though it clearly works when the device is in airplane mode.

However, I will admit that OSMAnd is the least performant of the map apps that use OSM data (or any other map/navigation app, really).

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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Well yeah, if you get some beefy server somewhere else to do the rendering it will be quicker.
I don't know if Organic Maps and the like actually store vector tiles locally to get the speed up or what, but they're clearly doing something better.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I tend to only run mapping/navigation software offline, and this type of poor performance has only been noticeable on OSMAnd.

It's nowhere near as bad as it once was, but it's still not great.