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  • My experience has been OSMAnd feels “heavy”. It is a large app but i guess there’s so much it just feels sluggish. But it has the most features which I use as my go to reference.

    Organic maps (and CoMaps) feels sleeker and quicker but when im on the road I want traffic updates.

    For the last few years my go to is Magic Earth for the traffic data.

    My issues with OSM is a lot of missing information and incorrect roads. I have contributed updates but when I’m driving and I come across something wrong there’s no way for me to flag it so i can revisit it later.

    All in all I’m still torn between them all and still waiting for the day one ticks all the boxes.

    More often than not I find I end up using Google Maps to get me out of a wrong or missing turn or to the final destination because finding places on OSM isn’t there yet. If OSM gets something wrong when I’m driving I don’t have time to faff around trying to fix it so GMaps takes over the rest of the way and I dislike having to do so









  • Honestly depends on whats being served. As i say people can run servers on enterprise grade multi thousand £ systems or a £50 pi or mini pc.

    Since you have a specific usage in mind, media server, you basically want hardware that will allow optimised performance so you can have a lag/ buffer free experience.

    Say,

    hardware thats good for on the fly encoding/ decoding

    Lots of ram for multitasking.

    Lots of storage to store the media.

    Maybe gigabit network cards for multiuser streaming without bandwidth bottlenecks.

    It really depends on the experience and chokepoints

    ECC ram ill let someone more familiar answer but im leaning towards non critical and nice to have

    Nothing you couldnt upgrade on your typical PC. Just makes life easier…at a cost.


  • Server serves a specific application(s). PC is general day to day usage.

    Both are computers. Pc hardware can be used as a server. Server hardware can be used as a pc.

    Using a computer for day to day tasks - call it a pc. Use it to run a web server application or host a game - that one or more users will access - call it a server

    Hardware can be configured to optimise it for its function. E.g pc can have latest GPUs and “servers” can have multicore cpus and loads of ram, rack mounting form factor and dual power supplies for redundancy.

    But it could also be weak - i have raspberry pi’s and old laptops set up as a servers