Organic Maps Turns 4: The Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Maps (opens in new tab)

* Rendering and routing are faster (especially noticeable on older devices)

* Renders 3D buildings

* Far smpler UI, so it's hard for tech-illiterate users to get stuck

* Changes made with the Organic Maps editor become visible in your Organic Maps immediately. In OsmAnd, your edits vanish upon upload, and only appear once there is a map update - this can be as early as in one hour (using OsmAnd Live), or as late as one month.

* Organic Maps is less buggy.

Cons of Organic Maps compared to OsmAnd -

* OsmAnd has far more features, like bus or share taxi routing, aerial imagery, 3D relief, analysis of GPS tracks, radius ruler, etc

* OsmAnd can render a lot more data like street surface, smoothness, access restrictions, lighting, features with FIXME tags, OSM notes, etc.

* Organic Maps only updates data once a month. OsmAnd updates data monthly too, but also has the OsmAnd Live feature to update data every hour.

* OsmAnd's editor supports adding arbitrary keys, whereas Organic Maps' does not.