Tried to use OSMAnd last week to navigate around on vacation. For some reason it seems to be incapable of searching for house numbers, which is an instant dealbreaker. I'm very confused as to how or why this is a thing on such a mature product.

I was able to share a location from GMaps WV over to it to get navigation working, and from there the navigation was awesome!

Currently also testing Magic Earth and Organic Maps but I'm very interested to hear from those with more experience.

  • Carter@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    I don't think the data is there for most house numbers. Everywhere I go, Street Complete is asking me for house numbers.

    • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      They are there. If I zoom in I can see them. If I search in the other apps I can see them.

      What is Street Complete?

      • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
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        10 months ago

        It probably varies by location. I live in a pretty small town, and StreetComplete hasn't asked me for house numbers yet at all.

        • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          I think it depends on whether the buildings have been added. I don't get asked for house numbers, but when I looked on the OSM website, most of the buildings themselves are missing.

          On the bright side, I've got plenty of things to do :)

  • N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I love Organic Maps, it is clean, simple, and works for 95% of my needs. The rest of the times I resort to OsmAnd, which is heavier and more complicated but has many more options.

    The house number search can be tricky with OpenStreetMap based apps, unfortunatey, but still better than using Google, in my opinion.

    I used Magic Earth in the past, but it has some wrong information in my city (an important road is marked as closed and it calculates long detours) which is not coming from OpenStreetMap, so I personally don't trust it.

  • bug@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    TIL there are multiple open street map apps (obvious that there would be now I think about it!)

    Clearly I have nothing to add, but thanks for asking the question, I'll be saving the post and trying out all the answers!

  • Joseph_Boom@feddit.it
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    10 months ago

    I used Magic Earth only two times but it worked really great and the Speed Camera indicator is a plus