@ivar , thank you. I have been using the Android app +OSMAnd for about five years now and have got used to its way of doing things and coped with several upgrades. I have a three year old Samsung 10" tablet with keyboard.
I downloaded
Windy Maps about 24 hours ago.
From looking at routes I know locally I see it takes it's data from Open Street Maps (OSM). All the local, regional and national routes I know of in my home 60 km square area were there and were named.
From my experience of using other map sources and apps, OSM is an excellent, if not the best, map data source.
No matter how good the map data source, presentation makes or breaks the experience.
To my mind the presentation of
Windy Maps was cleaner than that offered by the app +OSMAnd.
And it also provided elevation contours (when , which +OSMAnd does not.
Windy Maps provides route planning and my simple experiments were well done. (But I will need more practice to best use this facility). A very nice feature was being able to show weather (temp, cloud/sun, rain) at the times expected to pass way points (Tom, please note
). I noticed there were other route planning features and will look at these anon.
A nice feature in showing routes is this: When entering a route as base data in OSM you select the section of a path or road (or whatever) the route takes. In presentations I have see the route is overlaid on that path or road. In
Windy Maps the route is show alongside. This means I can better see the basic nature of what I will be walking on. This can help with selection, for example, when sign posts are not present.
Of course elevation contours and routes show when zoomed in to a range of higher scales.
One awkward aspect of
Windy Maps was this: I could not see the creation date for the map files I downloaded. So I don't know when to download a newer version. There may be a way to find this information that has eluded me.
I will continue to examine and will report any more significant aspects, as I find them.
Kia kaha katoa (you all take care, be strong, get going)