I can safely upload that screenshot, because it should be almost impossible to figure out where I am based on that, which is exactly the problem.
I don’t know if I’ve misconfigured something, but I can’t find any option to show any actual map. I can sometimes sort of figure out what I’m looking at when I’m very familiar with the area, based on the shape of the faint lines that I can see, but anywhere else it’s basically impossible. Just now I wanted to look at some tags of a road segment 50km away from me. I pan to the side, wait for auto-download, pan a bit further and it already says that I have too much downloaded and wants me to prune data. The app currently takes up 0.03% of my phone’s storage and I’ve set all the limits to maximum, so I have no idea why it does that. What I can do is to switch to OsmAnd, go to the location there, copy GPS coordinates and enter them into the search here, but after that detour it’s really hard to recognise the area. It doesn’t even show GPS coordinates of the current view anywhere, just a scale grid with 0 0 at the top left.
Is there any way to show a properly rendered map below the nodes, or a satellite view? Why are the limits so low? How does anyone find their way around the map in this app?
Actually it is pretty easy to find out where this screenshot is. Due to the presence of object name and node ids in the bottom part. Took me less time than writing this reply.
Right, I hadn’t cropped out the text below, so you can just google that, I guess. You win a GeoGuessr cookie. ;)
I fixed that now. What I meant is that by looking at the map, you can’t tell what it’s a map of.
But is this what you see in the app, too? How is that comprehensible?
Then press the + Button and select “Hintergrundebene hinzufügen” and select Niedersachsen DOP20 or ESRI, Mapbox or Bing Satellite. The latter three have coverage of the whole world.
If you don’t enable the 1st option, the “standard” OSM map is displayed. In any case you could naturally just go to the overflow menu and select “Help”, to get Main map display - Vespucci, with Main map display - Vespucci explaining in detail how you can change which layers are displayed.
Ah, that does it, thank you! It’s a bit weird that that is an option that works out of the box, while almost everything else in that menu is for custom additions that open a file selection.
I probably selected options #1, #2 and #4 there.
I’m not zoomed out far, there’s just one medium sized town in view. In OsmAnd, I can download an entire country’s data with just a few clicks, so one town shouldn’t be that difficult, right?
And why do I keep getting warnings about limits when it has barely done anything yet? While I’m typing this on my laptop, the app just completely freaked out and showed about a hundred “Download limits exceeded” popups at once.
You are comparing Apples and Oranges. OsmAnd is using preprocessed data that is on your device, Vespucci is downloading on the fly current raw OSM data for editing purposes from the OSM editing API. The API has both download size and rate limits (not mentioning that if you are hitting these limits you are loading a lot of data in to your phones memory), it seems as if you are zoomed just enough out that the app is still trying to download data, but in practice it wont work. This is just a consequence of OSM data density being very uneven and that zoom limit being a compromise. Zoom in more and things will be OK.
PS: note on the side: you can actually get and use offline data with Vespucci and while it’s never going to be as fast as using preprocessed data like OsmAnd and other routing apps (it has to do expensive stuff like building mutli-polygons on the fly etc), you do avoid the API limits. But the use case for that is more centred around editing out in the wild without Internet connectivity and comes at the price of potentially stale data.
I regularly use Vespucci to display a map background of a “medium sized town” but what I would never do is download all that data from the OSM editing API.
Maybe you have zoomed right out and (because background layers where misconfigured) selected “download current view”?
When you are ready to edit something zoom right in, select “download current view” and make your edit.
