See how they work: https://osmand.net/blog/measuring-tools

Hi!

I'm having a weird bug with the OsmAnd Carplay integration and wanted to know if any one else is experiencing something similar. I just can't quite put my finger on it.

I use a cheap 5" Aliexpress carplay display on my motorbike, so that I can keep my phone in my pocket.

I use OsmAnd for navigation with imported gpx-Files or on-demand routing.

Sometimes I don't use navigation at all and just use the map and current speed.

It works fine, but after some time (sometimes after an hour or two, sometimes after a few minutes) the map starts to "skid" around. Just as if someone startet to wildly swipe across the screen. Sometimes there's no skidding but just like a tap on the screen that activates certain buttons.

I first thought this would be a hardware problem, but after I close OsmAnd and use any other app (Spotify, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Calimoto), the problem stops.

Phone: iPhone 16e

iOS: 26.5.2

OsmAnd Version: 5380

Anyone else having this problem?

Hi, I'm often traveling by train. Now I was wondering if there an option/a rendering style/an alternative to OsmAnd that prefers railway lines over roads when you zoom out? Currently all the railway lines disappear if I zoom out a couple of times (like 10 times or so) and only bigger roads and motorways are left on the map.

This makes it pretty hard to plan a train-trip because there seems to be no way of seeing where the trains go and which towns might be reachable short of tracing the lines by hand at a low zoom level.

But since the data is all there - is there a way to show it on the map even if zoomed further out? Or if it's impossible - is there an alternative I could use?

Does anyone know what this means—where it says the deadline for the cartographer update plugin is August 16th?

Hello there,

When I start the navigation of a track file then the whole route will be highlighted. Is there a way to only highlight the route until the next track point?

background: I had the idea to drive around the city and capture wifi networks together with their gps coordinates. I don't know yet what to do with the data but it's fun. I try to drive on every street to every little corner of the city to capture all existing wifi networks. The problem is that the route I drive overlaps itself often. There are many dead-end streets so I keep driving back and forth and all streets are highlighted in the app. This makes it hard to see where to turn left or right. There are helpful instructions at the top of the screen but sometimes the app is not updating fast enough and I take the wrong turn. If that happens the route sometimes resets itself. So I thought if the app would only highlight from my current position until the next track point this would help.

I hope you understand what I mean. Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone, is there any update on the request to integrate mangrove.reviews with OSMAnd maps? I've been recently using OSMAnd a lot, and I believe this is really the last piece of puzzle missing to complete this app and make it a viable alternative to Google maps for the people with less tech knowledge.

So I am wondering if it's possible to make the navigation automatically route to the building entrance instead of the centre of the building. Currently when I select an area that has an entrance it only leads me to a point closest to the middle of the building. I tried both brouter, which I currently use and the default on foot navigation profile and it doesn't seem that either of them have that function. Is there any way to this in osmand, or with a brouter profile or a different app?

Osmand cant seem to do this [last feature I use to degoogle from maps] could someone please kindly show me how?

Maybe I still don't understand how to use OsmAnd so every tip would be helpful.

I recorded a route while hiking and I did that by pausing the recording a few times and then resuming the tracking. This led to segments with slightly different end and start position, but I corrected that with gpx studio (it would be great if there was a way to do it directly in OsmAnd without having it just join the points with a straight line), but now in those point I have completely unreasonable speed values, like 2500 min/km.

Is there a way to fix this issue that I'm not aware of?

Maybe I should have recorded or joined the track in a different way? I like to pause when for example I stop for lunch because maybe I walk around a bit and I don't want to have to clean it on the gpx track.

Thank for any input you could give me!

I prefer it to be more easily reachable with my thumb but I can't seem to move it as it brings up a menu when I hold down on it.

I have OsmAnd+ on my Android phone, and all of a sudden hourly map updates for my home province of British Columbia have ceased. I can still get such frequent updates for other provinces or states, so why not for BC anymore?

Why does altitude terrain custom colors only work when zooming close?

Whats wrong?

zoom levels: 4-19

OsmAnd is telling me to make a turn on a road that does not exist. How can I tell the app to ignore this turn and also report it so that it does not recommend it to other users too?

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UPDATE (July 6): big week thanks to the feedback in this thread:

- Fixed: sqlitedb overlays now display correctly in OsmAnd (zoom numbering bug) and always rebuild after an update.

- New, transparent-raster: render just the layers you want (paths, rivers, roads) as transparent tiles to overlay on the LiDAR relief. OsmAnd can't overlay vector data, this works around it.

- New, send to phone: a 📲 button shows a QR code, scan it and "Open with" OsmAnd imports the map directly. No cable, no cloud, local WiFi only.

Details and downloads: GitHub (https://github.com/nico579/lidar2map)
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A month ago I posted about lidar2map, a free open-source tool (GPL) that

turns public LiDAR data into offline relief maps for OsmAnd. Back then it

only covered France. Quick update, since the coverage is now 30+ official

sources in 20+ countries:

- Germany: Bavaria, NRW, Lower Saxony, Thuringia (1 m)

- Austria: Tyrol and East Tyrol (0.5 m)

- Switzerland, Czechia, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium (Flanders)

- UK (England, Scotland, Wales) and Ireland

- Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, Spain

- US (3DEP), Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand

You pick a town or a bounding box, the tool downloads the official national

LiDAR tiles and computes visualizations that reveal micro-terrain invisible

on satellite or standard maps: old paths, terraces, earthworks, drainage,

charcoal kilns. Output is a .sqlitedb or MBTiles file you drop into OsmAnd

and use fully offline in the field.

Also new since the first post: a small GUI (no command line needed),

presets that auto-tune the visualization to each source's resolution, and

a compressed tile cache (about half the disk space).

Free, GPL, Windows/macOS/Linux: https://github.com/nico579/lidar2map/releases

If you try it on your country's data, feedback is very welcome, especially

on how the maps render in OsmAnd in the field.

I first found osmand about 5 years ago and loved it but found it to be so Laggy when being used as a sat nav for driving so I shelved it.

5 years later I thought I'd give it another go, but To my disappointed it still seems to be one scat behind.

I've tried all the usual fixes like turning off animating position and kalman filter but I'm still a good 20 yards behind my actual position which makes it difficult to navigate at speed. It seems to catch up on rest, but it feels like you are being pulled along by a rubber band.

Such a shame as the routing is by far the best, better than most dedicated satnavs and the shear amount of options means I can dial in just the right settings for me.

I know it's not the main intended use for osmand but such a shame as it could be the best out there in my opinion!

Hello, looking for help as I would like to install the Speed Cameras POIs feature but somehow in OsmAnd settings > Legal > "This device doesn't have speed cameras."

Android 15, Galaxy S25.

OsmAnd~ v5.3.10 from F-Droid (neo store) net.osmand.plus ; I tried a fresh reinstall a couple times already.

Thanks for your insights!

When I want to get from place A to B in a city, I would much rather prefer to use a dedicated footpath. Walking on the sidewalks next to a road tends to be louder, with cars whizzing past you. The sidewalk also tends to be narrower. Of course if there isn't a footpath available, using a road with sidewalks is fine. I am just interested if I could make the app prefer using these dedicated footpaths over sidewalks and roads.

Why does OSM lock me out of using the app?

I downloaded all of Europe last year. But now it won’t let me use local roads sometimes. Only highways.

I’s not like the roads don't exist anymore. No one cares if it’s not 100% accurate. There are always redirection road signs. Just let me use the navigation…

I'm having a problem where the POIs (see image) can't be removed, making the map unreadable at a certain zoom level. I've already tried different profiles, but it makes no difference. I can't find a solution using AI either. All POIs are disabled, including the Wikipedia module. OsmAnd version: 5.3.10, phone: Galaxy XCover 6 Pro, also running the latest OS. The screenshots are in German but you should be able to guess the settings names (Sorry, it doesn't take my other two pictures...).

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this, or has anyone else experienced this problem?

How to do custom shaders for a custom map style? (shader="xxxxxxx") Where to put the png/svg/xml files? I mean I recreated the /style-icons/ folder hierarchy in the Android/data/net.osmand.plus/files/rendering/ folder, but it doesn't seem to use the new images from it

I've been experiencing a lot of crashing when I use OsmAnd offline in my car. The navigation is starting fine but after around half an hour the the app on carplay crashes, blank screen and can't turned back on again unless I close the app on my iPhone.

This makes it unreliable to me for using it - at least complete offline - as a car navigation unfortunately. I also de-installed and installed the app back again, all the maps I have downloaded are up to date.

I connect my offline iphone (I've been using my spare iPhone without SIM for ages in my car, it is fine with mapy and organic.

Is there a fix for this constant crashing?

Before sharing an OsmAnd-recorded GPX, the file may still contain exact start/end points, timestamps, waypoints, elevation and activity/device extensions.

I built a small independent open-source tool that scans those categories and creates a cleaned copy locally in the browser: https://guitarman413.github.io/gpx-privacy-cleaner/?source=reddit

It can trim a chosen travelled distance from the start and/or end (rather than deleting everything inside a simple radius) and remove selected metadata. It is not an OsmAnd feature and does not claim to guarantee anonymity; the cleaned file should be reviewed and tested before relying on it.

I am interested in whether this fits the OsmAnd export workflow and which GPX fields people here would still want flagged before sharing.