Android without the mothership

Posted Jun 18, 2014 20:46 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Android without the mothership by pabs
Parent article: Android without the mothership

As a victim of the commercial version, which anti-features are those?

Android without the mothership

Posted Jun 18, 2014 23:55 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

Looking at reviews, it seems that recent versions refuse to calculate routes longer than 200km. See the Play page[1].

[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand

Android without the mothership

Posted Jun 20, 2014 22:08 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

Earlier versions of the app had issues calculating long routes, so users were encouraged to supply waypoints every 200 km or so. According to the change log on the Play Store, this appears to have been fixed in the current version. (The one review I saw complaining about the 200-km issue was apparently for the older version.)

Android without the mothership

Posted Jun 19, 2014 1:52 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

The one I was affected by is that you can only download 10 countries with the gratis official version.

Android without the mothership

Posted Jun 21, 2014 8:59 UTC (Sat) by zack (subscriber, #7062) [Link]

> The one I was affected by is that you can only download 10 countries with the gratis official version.

FWIW, that specific anti-feature is trivial to work around by installing maps via USB connection to the phone. I've some scripts that makes it easy doing that here http://git.upsilon.cc/?p=utils/osmand-install-map.git;a=tree