We are glad to introduce a new product which joined the OsmAnd family. OsmAnd DVR, which is a car video recorder, easily turns your iPhone or iPad into a car dashboard camera. When would you use OsmAnd DVR?

Yes, we're developing a fully functional Youtube channel to provide you with the most interesting information about OsmAnd, mapping and using the power of OSM in your daily life.

We are glad to announce the release of version 1.9! We proudly present some major improvements and new features, and hope you will enjoy them:

OsMo Plugin​

OSM Advanced Live Monitoring plugin provides variety of features. It could be compared with Google Latitude or with other live services. It helps to share your location with friends.

OsmAnd 1.7 is coming. The biggest breakthrough of this release is a new route planning mode, after any Directions action, which is designed to quickly change start and destination point, tweak parameters and see immediate route recalculation.

• One of the major changes is route calculation engine. It is completely rebuild and gives precise route based on routing parameters.
• To take advantage of all features of new route calculation, maps should be updated as March 2014.
• GPX route calculation is moved under Route Settings button and feature of 'Pass the whole track' enables OsmAnd navigation, so you will always get map instructions even if you deviated from the route.
• Active tunnel simulation (long waiting feature).
• Speech rate setting (accessibility).
• Lots of small & handy features.

What's new in this version:

• Voice warnings about speed limits and cameras
• More voice prompt capabilities (street names announced)
• High density map icons
• Lots of UI changes
• Bugfixes in distance display, GPX analyzer, waypoint handling, planning widget, OSM uploading, https handling

New major release is rolled out. It has lots of small & useful features. We completely redesigned how the map rendered, now you would not see view freezes while dragging the map. Here is the short list of new features :

• Support of Full HD devices
• Support transparent map background (allow to see map over satellites view)
• Show downloaded maps and facilitate downloading missing maps directly from the map view
• Contour line map files now bundled for countries/regions
• New world basemap with major roads, railroads, and major areal features like forests
• Map magnifier feature (long click on zoom button) * Useful both for tile and vector maps
• Define/edit custom online tile sources (and specify expiration time)
• Support of time conditional speed limits (Netherlands for example)
• Faster search address input
• Bug fixes with routing and rendering