I like osmand for off-grid motorcycle type stuff but I’ve found it to be somewhat useless for final mile navigation especially ironically in the city. I still use it as it’s awesome and allows pre-planned offline routes but I also still use gmaps as well. When I drove trucks for a living I found that the Garmin (truck specific but buy what you need) GPS to be quite amazing and will probably buy one of those for my car someday.
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randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Guys, try some OpenStreetMap-based alternatives and get rid of Google Maps:
ratman150@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 8 months ago
Does organic maps work without downloading maps? I don't really need nav, but sometimes I need to know how to get somewhere. I can't do that with Osmand.
hellequin67@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Both great ideas but they’re not available to android auto, I’d need an alternative that can load in android auto
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The one big draw of Google maps for me is the real-time traffic info. I don’t think that anything else had the ability to gather the same amount of info (except maybe Apple?)
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Waze. Google Maps literally gathers a large part of it’s traffic real time data from Waze (which they also own).
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe, but I suspect that Waze has a small fraction of the gmaps user base, so if it has compatible traffic info, it’s because it draws on Google’s data.
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Google pulls from Waze, but Waze isn’t allowed to pull data from Google.