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It calls Organic Maps new (and the article is recent) but Organic Maps has been around for a while now?

FWIW I prefer Organic Maps for casual usage - I think OSMAnd is very featureful but the UI is less intuitive IMO.

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It's been around for some time and is a fork of Maps.me, which was called MapWithMe before this.

Which is now completely filled with advertisements and limit on how many maps you can download.

It went from great to very intrusive.

What do you use Organic Maps for? Driving directions, walking, hiking, cycling? All of those or something else? It doesn't seem good for hiking because it's missing so many basic metrics that Gaia has (elevation data, different speeds like rate of ascent). I've got a rough impression that it's mostly suited for urban European locales for walking directions, but in the US I only use mapping apps for driving (turn by turn directions) and hiking in mountainous wilderness (as opposed to some places in Europe that had nearly urban "hiking").

AllTrails is better for 99% of activities and way easier to use. If you want some kind of uber-specific feature, use case or location, there is usually one app that is better for that (like onX for hunting/fishing, or Yahoo Maps for... Japan)

I use OrganicMaps / CoMaps for hiking. It has contour lines, it gives an elevation gain graph when you build an itinerary, and does seem to take the elevation gain in account when estimating time. I have not planned complex hiking itineraries with it too.

OSMAnd also has interesting features for hiking.

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