I’ve been using Waze for the past year but I just looked it up and realised that it’s also owned by Google. I tried using OsmAnd yesterday twice, but the first time I went through a tunnel it just stopped giving directions when I came out of the tunnel (a bug I assume). The second time on the way home, it took me down the wrong exit and I almost ended up at the airport!
Anybody have a better experience with other apps? I’ve just installed Organic Maps so I’ll see how that goes this week.
For most people Organic Maps is the move.
I love OSMand and it has become my digital pin board of places I’ve been to over the years. It can do a lot (for example I have a preset with sat imagery and a transparent topo map overlay for hiking) but it can be clunky, and a lot of cool stuff is hard to find and change in the menus.
I love OSMand. It does exactly what a map should do. It doesn’t have these weird user unfriendly quirks that Here and Google Maps have that make them harder to use.
I just have one problem with it, it gives some directions via notifications instead of voice, for some reason, which is baaaad when you’re driving.
This is perfect! Ty
Organic maps is nicer gui and directions, i’m trying to use it more.
And you can edit them and add places that are missing
i have been using magic earth with no issues.
@JoelJ
You can also try MagicEarth from PlayStoreRecommending an app from the play store seems counterintuitive to degoogling, no?
@pogmommy
Which OS are you using on your smartphone?I use Grapheneos, though I’m not opposed to suggesting stuff from the play store where foss options don’t cut it. I just personally don’t feel like they make much sense in a post in a degoogling community
@pogmommy
Then one could also argue and say that grapheneos is not good because it is based on Aosp, which is developed by Google.I mean, I don’t disagree entirely. Once a proper foss smartphone is available and viable for daily use, I fully intend to use it because graphene does have a lot of google dependencies that I consider shortcomings. But if the goal is degoogling, navigation apps from non-google stores is not a particularly high bar to clear at the moment.
I prefer organic maps to osmand but neither is great. My old Garmin car GPS was in some ways better. Google’s main competitor is unfortunately probably Apple Maps.
I guess buying a car GPS system is still an option 🤔
Another vote for Magic Earth, the other providers do not have addresses past street - level in my location. No complaints at all :)
Thanks, I’ll give that a try after Organic Maps. I had the same issue with no street numbers too
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Best I’ve seen so far is organic maps. It’s very good on local It shows you all the building numbers around you which is kind of nice. However it does not work well on long trips. And more than once I’ve had to download fairly large blocks of extra tiles if I’m not on an interstate.
To get you back and forth to a doctor or a dentist or a couple of towns over it’s fabulous.
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HERE WE GO has been a great Google Map alternative for me.
I use “HERE we go” in Germany
data-wise, OsmAnd and Organic both use OpenStreetMap so there’s no difference. I am not sure the second error in your post is a osm problem or it’s just osmand
With OSM I don’t understand how to enter my destination address. Like today I needed to get from work real quick somewhere. I caved and went to the evil map. But otherwise I get to work with it in case the freeway gets plugged.
