Comaps works well for me. If it’s not comprehensive enough, contribute! OSM is crowd-sourced.
I’ve been using CoMaps for a while as my only map app and I’m very happy with it.
My main issue with it is that often it cannot find the street/city I’m searching. That’s why I don’t use it all the time.
Have you downloaded the map for that area?
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.
The city exist on the map, it’s the search that doesn’t find. Not sure what I could do in that case.
My issue with OSM is that i need an account which may potentially contribute to leak my identity
This is a real problem. Search on any OSM app is not the same as GMaps or the other mainstream map services. Contributing to OSM through EveryDoor or StreetComplete in your area will definitely help improve this but as a stop gap I use an app called GMaps WV. It loads Google Maps in an isolated web browser, which allows you to use their search and once you find what your looking for it has a share option that copies the coordinates to the clipboard which you paste into CoMaps and let it take over.
@InterestingUsername +1 for #CoMaps and #OSM . Also started using #NuNav as a replacement for Magic Earth for Car Navigation. It also uses Maps from #OpenStreetMap .
@mfuhrmann @InterestingUsername Sorry, im on #GrapheneOS and I don’t use any Google Services. So i could’nt test that.
It is a pity, that there is no open interface between cars and #AOSP based Smartphones…
@stritt @InterestingUsername #comaps works fine for navigation. But #nunav looks nice. It seems commercial, though?
Magic Earth is good but it’s proprietary and some features require a subscription. I also vote for CoMaps.
I use CoMaps for walking and for searching around, but Magic Earth’s been better for driving. It’s genuinely pretty good, but it sucks that it’s closed source and proprietary, I’ll gladly replace it with CoMaps or another FOSS alternative if one catches up.
I wonder how magic earth is doing the traffic information. Are they extracting it from Google maps?
Openstreetmaps
Android app OSMAnd+
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No android auto support though…
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You can run android auto through graphene.
@duckshuffgoose
Android Auto work with the FDroid Version
Co-maps generally works good for me, bht the bjg disadvantage is it has no traffic data (I think this might be inherently incompatable with standard foss, would love to be wrong though). So my go to when driving is HERE wego, which works well and is up to date (and not evil as far as I know)
came here to say comaps. they are also wprking on live traffic
Ow that is super exciting, I figured it would be a festure not in line with theil way their map functions (as you need to download everything). Glad to be wrong.
This is fucking gold. Thank you so much.
Holy shit im impressed by this project! Vela is degoogled gmaps, like newpipe is an alternative for youtube. Mighty impressive what they have done so far, seems like a new project, keeping my eyes on this one!
Edit: lts ofc entirely AI generated…
Yeah, but so far I haven’t had to provide any information to it whatsoever other than location access. For finding businesses and stuff like that, great stuff.
If you use live traffic re-checks, it pings google every few minutes, providing your updated position. And when it’s off, I think it still sends Google your initial position and route? But I’m not sure that can be turned off completely.
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.
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.
Which map is good depends largely on your needs, I think. Do you need it for car navigation, walking, biking, or public transport? OSM maps are better for pedestrians and cyclists in many regions, while Google Maps is more designed for car drivers.
MapQuest is a perfectly reasonable commercial alternative that has all of the things you’d expect - dynamically-loaded map tiles, turn-by-turn nav, etc. If you want to look at options that use OpenStreetMap data, I’ve found CoMaps to be very good. The biggest drawback is that you have to download maps (~100-300MB per geo area) all at once, which can be a problem if you’re on the road and don’t have great signal strength.
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I use both, but I use OSMAnd~ for mobile mapping, and CoMaps for navigation.
Paper map?
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)
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.
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.
Vela Maps
Not if you live more wild away from civilization.
