What's your Google Maps open-source replacement?

moonsnotreal, 10 months ago

Osmand with some of these custom maps that add address data to the normal maps. It works amazingly and is also entirely offline.

Olap, 10 months ago

Also on F-Droid!

Buffalox, 10 months ago

I’ve been using Osmand for years, it works fine here in Denmark. I just use the standard maps.

Offline functionality used to be very important to me, but not so much anymore. Still I’d hate my map to stop working, just because I don’t have good enough signal.

Olap, 10 months ago

I find offline still very important. Great for travelling, mobile data, and reliability

But I also have a SD card full of music on my phone. And no cloud storage

CodeGameEat, 10 months ago

Oh my thank you so much, this and no trafic data are my main 2 pain points with this app, now it’s one less!

grue, 10 months ago

Why isn’t that address data included in OpenStreetMaps and/or OSMAnd by default?

Cinnamon3431, 9 months ago

good question :( why not upstream the data?

pluja, 10 months ago

Try OrganicMaps (organicmaps.app) on Android. It’s awesome!

gvasco, 10 months ago

2nded! I really like it as a google alternative for maps and nav.

SIGSEGV, 10 months ago

Oh wow, this is great! Thanks.

Soullioness, 10 months ago

Can you use this with Android Auto?

CactusPete, 10 months ago

@pluja

@AlmightySnoo

It’s also available as testnet on ios. Got from App Store on iPhone.

speck, 10 months ago

Only thing I consistently don't see well done are parks and other green spaces, where the boundaries are ill defined or missing. Other than that, also my mainstay

luna, 10 months ago

Try adjusting them on openstreetmap.org/edit, takes a few minutes at most

speck, 10 months ago

Will try, thanks

TheYang, 10 months ago

it’s nice, but its navigation/route finding can be pretty atrocious

tooting_lemmy, 10 months ago

This is my favorite front end for openstreetmaps. The only problem is I live in NJ and most addresses are missing. I usually just get coordinates from Google maps and add them manually.

lwadmin, 10 months ago

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ghariksforge, 10 months ago

openstreetmaps.org ecosystem

for navigation I use Organic Maps: f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/

I like OsmAnd too, but it’s too much for most of my use cases. I still use it for recording trips.

Cris_Color, 10 months ago

I like OsmAnd as a client for using open street maps. I hadn’t heard of organic maps though which someone else mentioned- I’ll have to give it a try!

GutterPunch, 10 months ago

Open Street Maps. It has some gaps or missed addresses/neighborhoods/roads because it is built on contributions of volunteers.

ichbinjasokreativ, 10 months ago

I use Organic Maps on my degoogled pixel. Does not have quite as much data as google maps, but works really well for navigation and uses openstreetmaps’ data.

LightDelaBlue, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I use OsmAnd~ it’s very nice ,and open source . Oh and if you use the F-droid version you got the pro feature .

helmet91, 10 months ago

OsmAnd is awesome, I use it especially for cycling. It has an awesome cycling/hiking route planner, and even the smallest forest paths are on the map!

LightDelaBlue, 10 months ago

Oh yes for bike it’s amazing . I even find 1 accesses to a highway store wich normaly are not alowed .

ScaNtuRd, 10 months ago

I use Open Street Maps. There are multiple clients available, but the one I use is called OSMAnd+. It pretty much works just as well as Google Maps in my experience.

scrchngwsl, 10 months ago

For walking nothing beats OpenStreetMap. Absolutely destroys Google maps as it knows all the footpaths and what is and isn’t walkable.

For driving I’m stuck with Google due to Android Auto.

For finding businesses etc Here is the best alternative but frankly Google is in a different league in this regard, nothing beats it.

Faebe2222, 10 months ago

If you want a good alternative for driving try out Magic Earth! Also uses openstreetmaps and has some Waze like features to report stuff

scrchngwsl, 10 months ago

Thanks, I tried it a while ago (two years or more) and didn’t like it then, but it looks a lot better now. Will give it a go on some routes I know and see how it does!

markkdark, 10 months ago

For traveling I often use Here We Go maps, because have more information than Magic Earth (buses, trains, more info about restaurant / eating / sleeping accomodations - links, prices etc). In my country I use just Magic Earth.

notenoughbutter, 10 months ago

magic earth for regular use and herewego if openstreetmap doesn’t have data and I’m in a hurry

both are proprietary but way better than google

I also input data in openstreetmap if it doesn’t have it from gmaps webview(by divestos) so I can use it in future without relying on proprietary services

nicola, 10 months ago

OrganicMaps, love it

toffi, 10 months ago

Currently on vacation and switched to organic maps for the trip. Some stuff is awesome and some is kinda counter intuitive. Try to stick with it for now and see if I get used to it.

Clocker108, 10 months ago

I live in south korea, and unfortunately, openstreetmap isn’t enough for daily usage on here. So I am using both. Google Maps(using GMaps WV) and organic maps

ratherrisky, 10 months ago

Organic Maps. It uses OpenStreetMap as a backend, plus it has hiking trails as well.