I stumbled on the opensupermaps site before, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen any explanation. This explanation wasn’t great, but I eventually figured it out.
Option 1:
Download file from opensupermaps.com to data folder for OSMAND and it will auto load.
Great, there are dozens of folders in the /Android/data/net.osmandplus/ folder, and files with the same file extension all over. Maybe I should have dropped them in the app’s root data folder and hoped they didn’t overwrite anything important? I ended up just opening thr files and then pickimg OSMAnd to be sure.
Deactivate the default map file(s) to ensure search pulls results from this file.
It took me 20 minutes of digging and trying things to figure out that this means to go into the Maps & Resources, then to the Local tab, then click thru each section and on each item in each section choose the three dots an dpick Deactivate for it. Except the map names you just loaded, which don’t always match the file names.
After all this, it turns out the address data is no better than what OSMAnd already has. The only difference is display order (which is very nice to have fixed), but doesn’t change the fact that probably 60% of the US has no address data at all.
I know it’s a clusterf*ck with address data in the US, and many blocks of address data are proprietary or require licensing, but apparently MapCarta was able to get it. But not OSMAnd, Map.ME, MagicEarth, CoMaps, OrganicMaps, or even OpenSuperMaps.
Hmm, sorry that this was so painful for you. You could leave a post on their github with some suggestions to improve the end user docs.
I’m surprised address data isn’t open in the US, in some aspects y’all have much more open data than we generally have in Europe. On the plus side, if you start from that 60% coverage and get some help completing addresses in OSM the hard way, then it becomes a unique open data source.
I stumbled on the opensupermaps site before, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen any explanation. This explanation wasn’t great, but I eventually figured it out.
Great, there are dozens of folders in the /Android/data/net.osmandplus/ folder, and files with the same file extension all over. Maybe I should have dropped them in the app’s root data folder and hoped they didn’t overwrite anything important? I ended up just opening thr files and then pickimg OSMAnd to be sure.
It took me 20 minutes of digging and trying things to figure out that this means to go into the Maps & Resources, then to the Local tab, then click thru each section and on each item in each section choose the three dots an dpick Deactivate for it. Except the map names you just loaded, which don’t always match the file names.
After all this, it turns out the address data is no better than what OSMAnd already has. The only difference is display order (which is very nice to have fixed), but doesn’t change the fact that probably 60% of the US has no address data at all. I know it’s a clusterf*ck with address data in the US, and many blocks of address data are proprietary or require licensing, but apparently MapCarta was able to get it. But not OSMAnd, Map.ME, MagicEarth, CoMaps, OrganicMaps, or even OpenSuperMaps.
Hmm, sorry that this was so painful for you. You could leave a post on their github with some suggestions to improve the end user docs. I’m surprised address data isn’t open in the US, in some aspects y’all have much more open data than we generally have in Europe. On the plus side, if you start from that 60% coverage and get some help completing addresses in OSM the hard way, then it becomes a unique open data source.