differentiation to other OSM navigation apps

[Simplenuity]

Thanks for this impressive app!

I've read the wiki and a had a look through all the issues. I'd like to understand what sets osmin apart from other OSM based navigation apps? What was the motivation behind creating osmin, what's the x-factor?

Many thanks

[janbar]

• The first intent was to simplify the usage of the off-road navigation using your tracks (gpx), that can be uploaded or build with the app itself.
• Second, it has a very low power consumption, so you can navigate for 6~8 hours with a mobile device.
• Overall, using features like searching for a location, creating favorites or navigating to them are easy to use, simple and straightforward.
• All data as favorites and tracks are open and stored in a widely used format: CSV ans GPX.

So the tags are "EASY TO USE", "SAFE", "RELIABLE", "OPEN".

[Simplenuity]

Many thanks for clarifying!

Might be worth adding to README and/or wiki.

6-8 hours screen time? Then it definitely deserves the tag "BATTERY FRIENDLY", too :) Also will be interesting to see how off-road navigation compares with OSMand.

People might think twice (I did) whether to install two OSM apps as the maps need to be downloaded twice.

[AgentSteel]

I like that Osmin is a much lighter and faster app than the bigger names (Osmand...), who are bloated and are unusable on older, low-ram Android devices.

[Framstag]

The initial goals of libosmscout, which is the engine behind osmin were:

• Everything Offline with a reasonable disk size
• Fast with low memory usage
• High customizability of map (offline)

[mikeshenson]

+1 to it running on my PinePhone running Arch Linux!

[assistance-informatique]

And I use it successfully on my Pinephone Pro under manjaro/phosh... (pacman -S osmin)