Hello gentlemen,

I am also a long time (and hence, satisfied) user of Osmand, since back in 
2011.
Speed is (and has always been) an issue (you can check old discussion as 
well) - I believe there full consensus on this.
I had never thought it is a matter of computational power: any 100$ mobile 
phone has more computational power than a  garmin satnav, which has indeed 
always been faster.
So the bottleneck must be the algorithm, its implementation, or its 
parameters.
In any case, as a matter of fact, the speed issue has never been tackled 
properly -if it had been, an improvement would have been fond. Harry above 
cited several  offline solutions (Magic Earth for example) which are much 
faster.
I think it is a free developers choice, in which direction they want the 
app to improve. I personally would have preferred more speed (or smaller 
app dimension, just to mention another) rather than other stuff (but this 
is personal taste).
Please also notice that such an slow speed implies other issues: for 
example, Osmand does just offers one solution (THE optimal solution, 
whatever it means in real life, outside of the pure math world), whereas 
most of the "competitors" offer two-three options.
Last point - since Osmand is a sold product, users have the right to hardly 
complain. "Implement your own solution" is a good answer only for 
free-of-charge app  

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