It's essentially an open source fork of maps.me by the original creators.
I've been using OSMAnd for years, but it always felt laggy and not that reliable. Searching was slow and so on. Many street or things it didn't instantly find.
In the Graphene App Store I jnust discovered Accrescent (another app store thing but only with like 10 apps - they're all gold though, god damn)
An in there I found organic maps. And this shit is google maps level responsive. If you're on the lookout for a google maps replacement - consider trying this.
Byeeee
For driving I recommend Magic Earth, it's based on OSM data but uses proprietary traffic information as well
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.
I use gmap wv for that. It's just the web view of google maps but works better than Firefox and easier to pull up when osm fails. Navigation obviously doesn't work but should satisfy your use case.
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.
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Shame it doesn't do street numbers (possibly an OSM limitation?). Other than that, solid.
Many street numbers do not exist in OpenStreetMap because no one created them! So if you know about some area with this issue, help edit the map!
StreetComplete tasks got my neighborhood to be the best-mapped little village I've ever seen! 😎
Since I'm walking around for exercise anyway, I've got most of the addresses, and now I'm working on the fire hydrants.
Depends what you mean with "doesn't do". I haven't used Organic maps that much yet, but OSMand can handle street numbers. So Organic maps should too.
However it handles them very poorly, you have to type the address in a certain way or it won't recognise the number in it. Sharing from another app works pretty well most of the time though.
Thanks for the share, had no idea. It felt so nice that I already added two contributions to OpenStreetMap.
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.
It's also improving really fast. Organic Maps has a great community of developers.
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.
so i opened this app for the first time just now and entered my address, but it only went to my street. when i tap my house, it just says "building".. is there no residential support?
I just started using it, and I would say it's even snappier then G Maps. I was pretty skeptical at first, and it does have a few things I miss, like public transport live updates, but I can use the app of the local provider for that and in my experience G Maps can be quute inaccurate anyway. No way I'm going back now. You need some space to preload the maps though.
100% agree with this post. Mostly using google maps now for car route planning (still unbeatable in rerouting in case of car accidents etc. afaik).
