Are there any good google maps alternatives?
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Probably because the area youre in is not mapped out, however the routing engine is pretty much on par with the ones by Garmin and others
Roads work but I do prefer entering a destination instead of going to a city and then having to figure out where the street and streetnumber are.
Especially since I only use navigation if i don't already know where something is.
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My issue with OSM is that i need an account which may potentially contribute to leak my identity
Not really fixing the account issue, but can you use an email alias? I use one for my account.
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Interesting, I've been using the actual deflock app, but it doesn't have android auto. I'm assuming this pulls data from OSM or deflock. Do you know how quick that syncs?
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Who cares? Most of that list is negligible and the rest is a specific real-time occurrence that may not even be updated in a timely manner on the tech side. The underlying geography and major routes don't change. Grab an old map and hit the road, you'll find it's mostly correct but you do need illumination if operating it in the dark.
I'm sure this is safe to do while driving
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I actually think Apple Maps has gotten pretty good. I think they are better than Google at directions, Google is better at discovery.
I know that’s probably not the alternative you’re looking for, but it’s something.
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If OSM isn't good enough, make it better.
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I'm sure this is safe to do while driving
About as safe as staring at a fake road on your phone screen ? You’re not supposed to look at the directions for too long on your phone just cuz you can put it at eye level now, that’s still distracted driving. You remember what turns you take and if you can’t do that you either pull over and look or you have someone that can navigate
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I really appreciate mapy.com. They are european (Czech) company. Outside of Czech Republic they base on OSM and have very pretty and useful rendering of "outdoor" map, especially with hiking trails and point of interests almost like on paper map.
They also have their own system of posting images and commenting and have some noticable community, yet much smaller than on google.
You can also contribute to map content, yet I am not sure if they contribute upstream to OSM.The killer-paid-feature for me is vector offline maps in the "outdoor" flavor, which saved me many times on trips with poor internet coverage.
I hope they survive long before someone buys and enshittifies them.
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No. Most aren't able to do basic navigation to addresses of people. I'd like it to be different but for me CoMaps and the other ones aren't useful (yet)
I've generally been able to with Organic Maps. If the street address won't get me exactly to them, I'll add a mark right at their place on the map and route to that. That almost always works.
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My issue with OSM is that i need an account which may potentially contribute to leak my identity
I was also worried about this, but if you make your changes wide reaching enough and don't use the same username as everywhere else (honestly, this is a good practice for all accounts), it shouldn't leak your identity.
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Contributing to OSM is the best way to give yourself and others freedom from Google. It's very easy to do through StreetComplete, which is a gamified system that updates the map as people complete quests.
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Waze is my Achilles heel when it comes to degoogling. I use OSMAnd~ frequently and love it (even considering getting a lifetime license), but with the multitude of options it has it's missing a dedicated way for community driven police reports when driving. Absolutely essential feature in daily commutes for me. And not to mention I have to often find a location in GVmaps and manually input it to OSMAnd to be able to navigate to it since it's missing so many.
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Yeah, it pings Google for almost all of it. But for a quick "where is X store" and traffic if, for example, going to the airport and my wife made us late (it never happens, it's just an example
), I'm not too concerned. I have been using OSMAnd+ exclusively for a few years now, but this is something very useful for my needs.I'm guessing that, since I'm on GrapheneOS, there's not much, if anything at all, that they can tie to my person.
What's the difference between Openstreetmap and Graphene's geocoder? I have the later, i think it's the default.
And yeah, ditto for me, I've been using comaps until now, but being able to search shops without resorting to the full invasion of gmaps is neat indeed.
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About as safe as staring at a fake road on your phone screen ? You’re not supposed to look at the directions for too long on your phone just cuz you can put it at eye level now, that’s still distracted driving. You remember what turns you take and if you can’t do that you either pull over and look or you have someone that can navigate
The map app reads the directions to you.
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I use CoMaps when navigating: https://www.comaps.app/
I also recommend Obtainium for installing it: https://obtainium.imranr.dev/
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The map app reads the directions to you.
Yeah and for me it’s always too late, and most of them don’t have a solid plan, like you’ll need to be in this lane etc. That’s one of the biggest parts of navigation. If you pre plan your route you will know where to go and so on
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What's the difference between Openstreetmap and Graphene's geocoder? I have the later, i think it's the default.
And yeah, ditto for me, I've been using comaps until now, but being able to search shops without resorting to the full invasion of gmaps is neat indeed.
The GraoheneOS one is a reimplementation of the stock Google play service, while OSM is entirely community driven. I chose OSM in my phone for that, but in all honesty, you should be fine using GrapheneOS's all the same.
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I use HERE WeGo. I switched over a month ago and haven't had a problem yet.
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The city exist on the map, it's the search that doesn't find. Not sure what I could do in that case.
It can't find the entire city on the map, even though it's on the map? I've never experienced that, I'm not sure how that's possible.
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I have a standalone GPS like it's 2008, in addition to excellent offline navigation it also probably doesn't spy on me
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