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.
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 🤔
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.
@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.
