When CoMaps split it gained some energy and started developing more rapidly.
Now OM is also picking up pace judging by the number of commits, but I wouldn't know which one will be more healthy in the long term. Staying with CoMaps for now unless something major changes (or a miracle happens and OsmAnd builds fast rendering)
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Oh god, please give Osmand faster rendering and search.
And stop spasm when in stationary.
Oh Marx, please grant me a life in the Moscow Metro, drinking shroom vodka, going on adventures with my trusted uboinik and tihar, slaying fascists and maybe stealing a train to adventure out of the Metro
So I only need to use a paper map and a compass
I only used Organic Maps for a few months before switching. Comaps has been adding a lot of stuff at a pretty rapid pace. Overall I find it to be a better experience. I can't tell you anything about what went down with Organic Maps.
Some of Organic Maps OSM data conversion process went closed source too.
IMO CoMaps still has to prove they can maintain the codebase, but since there is basically 0 switching cost I switched.
Make the switch. Support open source.
CoMaps has very obvious new features and from using the app it is clearly ahead of organic maps
I find the lack of a CoMaps desktop app unfortunate, I am still using organic maps flatpak
in the exact same situation, thanks for asking the question.
Based on the replies i plan to stay with OM in the absence of compelling reasons to migrate