Okay, I know “now” is a couple months out-of-date, but I didn’t know this until today, so I figured some other people might not either.
I have both OsmAnd and CoMaps, and I generally prefer OsmAnd for its extensive customizability, Carto render, and the fact it can be kept more up-to-date. So it surprised me it didn’t have the option to view 3D buildings, since OSM for a long time now has kept track of information like building levels (building:levels), height (height), and even building parts with varying levels and heights. OsmAnd introduced this with Version 5.3 on April 21 for Android and April 24 for iOS.
Note that there are many towns and cities where this data either doesn’t exist yet or is incomplete, but even then, buildings will default to building:levels=1 in terms of the heightmap, so it’ll still give you some “texture”, so to speak (and show where you can personally improve the map if you contribute).
This was one of the few things on OsmAnd I was really missing from CoMaps, so it’s great to see it!
Edit: Looks like there’s a “level of detail” suboption for building part levels, i.e. where different parts of the same building can have different levels.
@TheTechnician27 Why does it have to include subscription options? Like I ain’t paying 6 euros a month to have frequent map updates and weather.
They suck at marketing. They should have named that differently, like Supporter Subscription or something like that and a description that explains that running the project has costs and support is appreciated.
@warmaster Yes, but that should be voluntary, not force me to pay to get determinate features.
Also, how do they keep paid options if the software is open source?
If you are an OSM contributor you can have the map updates for free
@Niquarl
Or if you install OsmAnd from the F-Droid store.