This project creates a comfortable map viewing and navigation (routing) application for mobile devices (such as Android phones). the challenges include device limitations of memory & processor resources. The application is particularly aimed at economic internet usage or no internet use at all (use preloaded data offline), hence offline features are prioritized higher than online features.

To get started you can visit Welcome. Screenshots & descriptions are also available at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAnd, and you can visit the project homepage.

For questions to give feedback, you are welcome to discuss the project at the google group OsmAnd. Please do not use comments on wiki page because it is rather difficult to find them.

The application currently accomodates the following use cases :

1. Map viewing and looking for locations or landmarks like villages, lakes, addresses (street / house number), the nearest open restaurants, or the closest public transport.
2. Aid for city walking tours (with or without internet) as a tourist, find POIs and addresses.
3. View or go to a location specified by lat/lon coordinates
4. Log your movements in tracks
5. Save your favorite spots as 'Favorites'.
6. OSM contributors can see OSM bugs : open/create, update map, edit POI.
7. Navigate using an existing GPX file
8. Use online routing for navigation (requires a small amount of internet traffic per route).
9. Offline routing is still in an experimental stage and works only for short distances

How to install & use application :

You can find the donation version Osmand+ on the Android Market (net.osmand.plus) or you can get one of the nightly builds and install it using ApkInstaller . Look at the How To Answers pages for hints on how to use the application and its features.

Target devices are Android 1.5 - 2.3

Support of the project

The project is a fully open and any help is appreciated. There are several ways to support product development :

1. You can send detailed reports on usability & how it could be improved by minimal changes
2. You can help with localization by providing translations to different languages, see TranslateHelp.
3. You can prepare/update map data for some regions & upload it to the downloads area.
4. You can donate to the project.

Some code info

Screenshots

Main menu	Routing	Route directions	Poi/transport over map	Pedestrian mode

Search transport	Search POI	Search address	Search history	POI filter

Editing osm bugs	Specify point	Settings menu	Target menu

Some more offline features (see also FeaturesList) :

1. View the raster maps (the map can be preloaded in Android or on PC). (0.1)
2. Locate your position (via GPS) on the map & and track where are you going. (0.1)
3. Display the map rotated according to the compass or your bearing. (0.1)
4. Find specific or closest POIs, also via predefined filters. (0.1)
5. Create own POI filters for fast search.
6. See filtered POI's on map. (0.1)
7. Find city/street/building/postcode. (0.1)
8. Add/edit/update favourite points on the map. (0.1)
9. Save tracks/routes to gpx (0.2)
10. Navigate to a point (offline routing is still experimental) or simply show the distance & direction to a destination. (0.1)
11. Transliterate feature: Indexes for China & Russia support transliterated English names (original en names will be preserved). (0.1)
12. Application has multi language support. You can help with additional languages TranslateHelp.
13. Look for public transport stops nearby (search for transport) - direct transport routing
14. Show GPS Status using 3rd party GPS Status app (0.2)
15. Navigation car/bicycle with a precalculated route (route calculation is online and cwn be saved as a GPX track. Offline routing is still experimental) (0.2)
16. Multitouch zoom & animated transitions (0.2.3)
17. Audio guidance for the route (0.3)
18. Support Big Planet Sqlite db (0.3)
19. Background service for tracking and navigation (save battery) (0.3)
20. Traffic information layer (0.3)
21. Display GPX files and base routing on them (0.4)

Online features:

1. Download raster maps from different sources on request. (0.1)
2. Support for OSM bugs (open/close/edit) via internet.
3. Add/edit/delete POIs directly from device(requires OSM login).
4. Online route calculation (car/bicycle/pedestrian) using e.g. http://www.yournavigation.org or http://cloudmade.com.
5. Download server (googlecode downloads) with weekly map updates to simply download maps directly from within the app.