OSMAND Limit of 10 free downloads in the context of humanitarian actions

[Pierre Béland]

For Disaster crisis like the Haiyan Typhoon, it is important to collect geolocated data about vital infrastructures and the OSM contributors cannot do this remotely. Innovations in the area of smartphones offer a great potential to collect data adapted to humanitarians and various people that circulate in disaster areas.

On the HOT-OSM Typhoon Haiyan Wiki page (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan), we are promoting OSMAND. An Experimental hourly updated Philippines map for OsmAnd is available at http://osmd.ch/haiyan/. Many thanks to the developpers that contribute to offer such softwares and services in the context of these humanitarian actions.

On the OSM talk Philippines list (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk), a OSM contributor mentions the limit of 10 free downloads of maps with the application.

Do you have any solution to propose to assure that in such humanitarian relief context, people could download data without any restriction from the OSMAND Application ?

Regard,

Pierre

[Will Rouesnel]

On Thu 30 Jan 2014 08:48:37 EST, Pierre Béland wrote:
> For Disaster crisis like the Haiyan Typhoon, it is important to
> collect geolocated data about vital infrastructures and the OSM
> contributors cannot do this remotely. Innovations in the area of
> smartphones offer a great potential to collect data adapted to
> humanitarians and various people that circulate in disaster areas.
>
> On the HOT-OSM Typhoon Haiyan Wiki page
> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan), we are promoting
> OSMAND. An Experimental hourly updated Philippines map for OsmAnd

> <http://osmand.net/> is available at http://osmd.ch/haiyan/. Many

> thanks to the developpers that contribute to offer such softwares and
> services in the context of these humanitarian actions.
>
> On the OSM talk Philippines list
> (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk), a OSM contributor
> mentions the limit of 10 free downloads of maps with the application.
>
> Do you have any solution to propose to assure that in such
> humanitarian relief context, people could download data without any
> restriction from the OSMAND Application ?
>
> Regard,
>
> Pierre
>

I may be wrong, but I believe the 10 download limit is for *different*
maps. You can have up to 10 map files downloaded at once.

[Nelson A. de Oliveira]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Pierre Béland <pier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have any solution to propose to assure that in such humanitarian
> relief context, people could download data without any restriction from the
> OSMAND Application ?

You can upload the map directly to the phone and this limit won't
apply (or download directly from the phone, from its browser, for
example).

[Harry van der Wolf]

2014-01-29 Will Rouesnel <w.rou...@gmail.com>:

On Thu 30 Jan 2014 08:48:37 EST, Pierre Béland wrote:
> On the OSM talk Philippines list
> (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk), a OSM contributor
> mentions the limit of 10 free downloads of maps with the application.
>
>

I may be wrong, but I believe the 10 download limit is for *different*
maps. You can have up to 10 map files downloaded at once.

No, this is not correct. The download is limited to 10 files, not 10 different files.

2014-01-30 Nelson A. de Oliveira <nao...@gmail.com>:

You can upload the map directly to the phone and this limit won't
apply (or download directly from the phone, from its browser, for
example).

Yes, this is correct.
Osmand Free allows only 10 downloads from within the application. You can however download as many maps as you want via your pc browser and copy them to you phone, or from your phone browser and copy them in the osmand folder. There is no limit on the number of used maps. It's simple the conveneience of being able to download maps within the application.

For normal maps you can download them from http://download.osmand.net/list.php via your pc or phone browser. But, as said, that is for normal download.

In your case you have an hourly updated map at a totally different location being http://osmd.ch/haiyan/. OsmAnd can't even access that. You need to download it via a phone browser or PC browser and put them in the osmand folder on your phone. There is no limit on that number of files.

Note: I have the OsmAnd+ versions that allows limitless numbers of downloads but for big maps I often download them on my pc and copy them to my phone as it is much faster.

Harry

[Pierre Béland]

Thanks to all for these answers.

Pierre

[Jindřich Makovička]

Another option is building a rebranded OsmAnd for this purpose, which
will use a custom map server (IndexConstants.INDEX_DOWNLOAD_DOMAIN).

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I like rebranding idea, at least it will show explicitly the usage of app. It is also possible to use OsmAnd~ which is fair , so you could be night build tester. Anyway, there are lots of options, and what is strongly not recommended to redistribute app via public place like Google Play. 

Regards,

Victor

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