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OsmAnd mentions (120)

• Bridges in the US are threaten by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars

  > Google maps and Waze does not allow for setting vehicle height As a side note, OsmAnd supports setting vehicle height* and has support for multiple vehicles/routing profiles: https://osmand.net *: and weight, width, and length. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Organic Maps is a free Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers

  How does it compare to OsmAnd? https://osmand.net. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• "I'm in this picture and I don't like it"

  OsmAnd works for me. I am looking to get off Google, so I try to retire anything that is not on F-Droid. OsmAnd is a independent project ( osmand.net ) that uses the data you can also access under www.openstreetmap.org . The App is not perfect and sometimes it calls for the wrong action, for example when a road is just taking a steep turn it might ask for you to turn onto a different road which is actually the... Source: 6 months ago

• WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

  When I am on a flight and the flight does not provide the flight information, I am using the OsmAnd, https://osmand.net/, to monitor the flight altitude, speed and direction. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Improving your online privacy: An update

  Regarding usage of OpenStreetMap over Google Maps - assuming we're talking mobile usage - you might give OSMAnd[0] a try. I've been using it exclusively on a Pixel loaded with GrapheneOS for a few months now. I would never consider going back to GMaps and I don't feel that I've lost anything either. [0] - https://osmand.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Carto mentions (7)

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Carto.com — Create maps and geospatial APIs from your and public data. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• OC: A guide to easily accessing OSM data with Google BigQuery

  I've written a guide to how to do this over at carto.com - this also includes a general guide to OSM including benefits and limitations, use cases and schema. Source: over 1 year ago

• IP Visualizer - Redis Hackathon submission

  Location data is provided by MaxMind The Map used is provided by Carto. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Site to display thematic maps?

  I have also used carto.com and ArcGIS Online to create interactive maps but most of my projects include static maps and I can not necessarily remake those on these sites as there are more complicated/don't need to be interactive. Source: over 2 years ago

• Tips and guides for setting up a cloud-based GIS database with a web map component for someone with very limited IT background

  I think CARTO would be perfect for this. It's basically just PostGIS in the cloud with a great interface. Source: almost 3 years ago