Organic Maps is so fucking good, I keep so much of it downloaded as a backup for when I’m offline, because it just works. That said, I still use Google maps due to the reviews of businesses and traffic data when navigating normally, but it’s good to know a great alternative is out there.
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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Organic Maps or OsmAnd is out there, just saying.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 months ago
Sadly, finding businesses and traffic data are 99% of the reason I open google maps. I have organic installed, but I’ve since found out that “I want to go somewhere I don’t know the way to but have found out the street address some other way, and I don’t care about the traffic in between” simply doesn’t happen.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It happens for me when I’m offline and the stupid Google Maps downloads didn’t work. I don’t even bother with downloading Google Maps any more, I just use CoMaps instead.
mapu@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
You might want to switch to CoMaps. Most developers fled there after the owners of Organic Maps showed shady behaviour regarding donations and the future of the project
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll check it out. Any links to articles on the shady behavior?
mapu@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
VeryVito@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Are they CarPlay enabled?
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes Organic Maps and CoMaps (its open community fork) both support Car Play
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
OsmAnd does have a CarPlay option. Dunno about Organic Maps and its forks.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wanting to mention CoMaps and that it was forked from Organic Maps.
The projects aren’t very diverged yet so you can still migrate your pins with an easy export/import