OSMTracker for Android™

Laboratorio Experimental

About this app

Inspired by OSMTracker for Windows Mobile, allows you to track your journeys, mark waypoints with tags, voice record, and photos.

GPS traces can then be exported in GPX format for later use with OpenStreetMap tools like JOSM, or uploaded directly to OpenStreetMap.

Tracks can be displayed over an OpenStreetMap background or with no background if you don't have a data plan.

Project page: https://github.com/labexp/osmtracker-android
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Help translate OSMTracker: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/osmtracker-android/

Source code: https://github.com/labexp/osmtracker-android

Permissions
• Fine location: Access the GPS
• Record audio: Record an audio tag
• Internet & network state: Display map background and upload to OpenStreetMap
• WiFi state: Get coarse location
• Write to SD card: GPX export

Ratings and reviews

The controls are not very easy to figure out. I have a hard time figuring out how to stop a recording in progress. I don't know what most of the controls on the main screen are for. It's not intuitive how to save your GPX recording somewhere. I tracks well, but doesn't show anything like distance covered, elevation, etc. I guess this app is meant for uploading data to OSM, but it's not great for a general purpose GPS tracker for hiking or cycling.

Photos are not stored anywhere, or if they are, they are so hard to find that I am running out of ideas. Just lost all of the photos I took on my 100km+ tour. I recommend using something more reliable. If I am wrong and the photos are accessible after all, will change this review.

A simple straight forward GPS tracking app. I use it for MTB riding and Nordic skiing for years. Fairly accurate and locks onto the GPS signal better than other apps I have used. Does not drain my battery too fast. You can mark waypoints, and take photos at those spots for reference. Others use it for plotting maps on OSM. I have no time for that but the tools are there.

What's new

Features: switch to Oauth2, multiple segments per track functionality.

Improvements: update translations (de, no, nl, el, da, ar, pt_PT, fa_IR, tr_TR, zh_TW, fr_FR, tr, vi, zh_CN, ta, sv, sr, sr@latin, sk, pt_BR, ru, ko, nb, lt, ja, kn, hr, it, gl, hu, fr, es, ca, fi, fa), thanks translators!.

Bug fixes: export tracks and custom layouts in scoped storage in android 11+.

Known bugs: take photos in traces is not working