Okay, I know "now" is a couple months out-of-date, but I didn't know this until today, so I figured some other people might not either.

I have both OsmAnd and CoMaps, and I generally prefer OsmAnd for its extensive customizability, Carto render, and the fact it can be kept more up-to-date. So it surprised me it didn't have the option to view 3D buildings, since OSM for a long time now has kept track of information like building levels (building:levels), height (height), and even building parts with varying levels and heights. OsmAnd introduced this with Version 5.3 on April 21 for Android and April 24 for iOS.

Note that there are many towns and cities where this data either doesn't exist yet or is incomplete, but even then, buildings will default to building:levels=1 in terms of the heightmap, so it'll still give you some "texture", so to speak (and show where you can personally improve the map if you contribute).

This was one of the few things on OsmAnd I was really missing from CoMaps, so it's great to see it!

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[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My favorite desktop 3D browsers:

https://demo.f4map.com/ - OSM data updated near instantly
https://osmbuildings.org/ - OSM data updated about once a month

Some other notable renderers with old and outdated OSM data:

https://streets.gl/ - static map data from 2023, but very nice!
https://ion.cesium.com/stories/viewer/?id=2f0131ab-3948-4467-947c-411d5705a116 old data not updated.
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webscene/viewer.html - old OSM data mixed with other even lower quality sources

If you want to see what you are doing while editing there is a new and working JOSM plugin UrbanEye3D: https://github.com/Zkir/UrbanEye3D

Kedzi3D was the previous plugin but it wasn't updated for recent Java versions, UrbanEye works like a charm!

[–] Citrus_Cartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's a great list! I'm going to add one more for Cartes:
https://cartes.app/

The maps usually get updated weekly. The 3D buildings only show up once you zoom in close.