OpenStreetMap

I've been using AndNav2 on my Android phone for a while now, and despite a few crashes, I've been reasonably pleased with it - it does satnav and uses the OSM data. Until recently, that is. A few days ago, I needed to find a route whilst in the field, and so fired up AndNav2, only to be presented with a dialogue box telling me it had "expired" and had therefore been disabled, and that I would need to upgrade to the latest version. So I upgraded... and promptly found the latest version didn't work at all. Since the older versions are no longer available for download, and contain this moronic "expiry" thing which would render them useless, I'm now stuck without working satnav software. The author basically doesn't seem to care about the (fairly large number) of people who are now complaining that it is completely broken, even though the fix is trivial: remove the expiry check and allow people to download the version that works.

So now I'm looking for some satnav software for my Android phone that runs on top of the OSM maps - anyone got any bright ideas?

To recap, the following things the AndNav2 developer has done are *NOT COOL*:
1. Forcing all the users to upgrade in the field when they actually need the software, rather than letting them do the upgrade in their own time when they are safely at home.
2. Posting a *completely broken* "upgrade".
3. Preventing users from downgrading again to the working version.

Every time I start using closed source software, something like this happens and reminds me why I usually don't bother.

Discussion

Comment from evolvedlight on 24 October 2009 at 02:01

Hey

Have a look at OpenSatNav. Obviously, not quite up to the AndNav2 level yet - but some bits are pretty good.

Comment from JohnSmith on 24 October 2009 at 04:36

navit has been ported to android, instead of needing rendered tiles it uses a data file and produces vector maps.

Comment from stephan75 on 24 October 2009 at 13:21

Hey Steve,

more apps for Android can be found in the OSM-wiki at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android

Please report success or failure for the other apps ...

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