For driving I recommend Magic Earth, it's based on OSM data but uses proprietary traffic information as well
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Yeah, you can see that organic maps is sadly not there yet in terms of driving-interface, but hopefully its getting there soon.
Afaik the app is far younger than magic earth and for what it is its super good. I'm so stoked to see how organic maps is gonna develop in the coming years
I second magic earth for driving. The only reason I haven't entirely removed Google maps from my phone yet is because magic earth doesn't have data on business hours. This is the last killer feature I'm waiting for.
In the meantime I'm routing for any open source map that can do live traffic and business info.
Honestly, I uses organic maps and if its not mapped I just go on the business website. Fuck google, thats why!
Interesting. Do you happen to know where it gets its traffic data from? I haven't yet personally found anything nearly as useful as Waze.
They collect location of their users but anonimize every data on device, they can't track anyone personally. They also sell their SDK to businesses and collect data from there as well.
From reading the Magic Earth FAQ, I believe the user data actually isn't used for traffic at all (at least the manually reported events certainly aren't).
Edit: never mind I missed a later part in the FAQ:
Do you share data with third parties?
We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it's not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.
Idk ... In their description on f-droid they crossed out "no pesticides" and wrote "purely organic" ... It implies they are using organic pesticides. Not sure if that's something for me tbh.
Edit: screenshot added
Caffeine and nicotine are legit organic insecticides, that might be a deeper joke about coffee and cigarettes powering development
It is pretty solid. It lacks some advanced features such as routing around preset areas but that's a minor complaint.
Aldo it is only as good as OSM. Get to work on the map.
Also the search doesn't work, so there is that...
Also using it in android auto is a pain and every action takes between 10x and 100x longer than on the phone.
But yeah it is pretty good and I try to contribute to it when I can. I don't know how to contribute to bad instruction translations though. It just says "verlaat" on an exit in dutch which grammatically makes no sense.
You should open an issue
Does it know how to navigate NYC public transit? That's a big use case for me. I don't need driving directions. I need to know which subway is closest.
Ok downloaded. Seems very nice!
Still working out how to get directions but all things in good time.
Astronomical Clock in Prague is like a fucking wormhole for humans. Last time I was there it felt there was like a thousand people in one small place.
my wife forced me to get up really early to look at it without coffee so I wasn't quite as whelmed as I should've been. Prague is lovely though.
Organic Maps is my goto solution for car navigation because it is very quick, responsive and does not require an high end phone. It just works. However for anything more advanced than that (e.g. live location sharing or recording, planning a hiking trip, navigating mountain bike trails, contributing to OpenStreemMap), OSMAnd is still without contender.
For me, it's even better than GMaps, because it lets me navigate on bike paths, which GMaps couldn't.
Thanks for the share, had no idea. It felt so nice that I already added two contributions to OpenStreetMap.
It's also improving really fast. Organic Maps has a great community of developers.
Wow that genuinely looks unbelievable!
It's like an old mall or whatever map except without you are here and movable!
What until you discover OSM (that's what Organic maps uses)
Does it do navigation with routes based on current traffic conditions? Because that's table stakes to me.
It is nice app but the problem is it doesn't show Czech hiking and cycling routes by default. I didn't figured out how to enable them.
Yep, the best of the best :)
In Berlin it was missing some public transportations like tram
Too bad OSM (and by extension this app) doesn't have public transport directions...
@thegreenguy It doesn't, but if you're lucky, your city might have a transit app itself (mine does). Even if chances are that it's not open source either, you'll still be able to cut your dependency to Google to a certain extent.
Word. That's one of the things where osm gets smashed by this app
It's my go to! Also check out the !open_street_maps@lemmy.world community
Edit: sorry, it looks like the more active community is !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml but I guess you can join both lol!
I always felt drawn back to G-Maps until a few months ago when a friend recommended this app. Organic Maps is gorgeous!
After a few days of use - as a cyclist - I only have one note. I'm missing the cycling style option from OSM. That's a real game changer right there.
It is great. But too bad for me - I live 40km away from the nearest town, in the forest of northern Sweden. So the coverage here is quite not so good. Practically all I see is the main road.
It's open street map data. If there isn't mapping info for your area, you can fix that.
You can actually contribute to it. There areso.me great mobile apps for this. I recommend Vespucci for in detail changes(creating new structures or editing their properties) and Street Complete for filling missing information.
Downloaded because of this post, it is very good!