• NanoooK@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      8 days ago

      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.

      • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        15·
        8 days ago

        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.

        • Axolotl@feddit.it
          1·
          8 days ago

          My issue with OSM is that i need an account which may potentially contribute to leak my identity

          • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            I was also worried about this, but if you make your changes wide reaching enough and don’t use the same username as everywhere else (honestly, this is a good practice for all accounts), it shouldn’t leak your identity.

          • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            It can’t find the entire city on the map, even though it’s on the map? I’ve never experienced that, I’m not sure how that’s possible.

      • oxomoxo@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 days ago

        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.

  • Citrus_Cartographer@lemmy.world
    38·
    9 days ago

    Cartes is probably the closest thing that I’ve found (besides Apple Maps or Bing Maps).

    • You can share links with anyone, and they don’t need a particular app to open it.
    • The interface will be familiar to Google maps users.
    • It supports leaving reviews for locations.
    • It will pull up Wikipedia information and photos if any have been uploaded to Wikimedia or Panoramax.
    • It’s really good for public transit routing.
    • It’s okay for planning driving routes, but for turn by turn directions you’ll want to use CoMaps (which Cartes has a link to open up the route there).
  • lepton64@lemmy.ml
    21·
    8 days ago

    Comaps is what I use because it is free, Osmand+ is what you should use if you are willing to pay a bit, but don’t use Organic Maps.

    • Enjoyer_of_Games@lemmy.ml
      11·
      8 days ago

      Osmand is free on fdroid. Comaps is probably a better google maps substitute for most people though. Osmand has deep features but is comparitively a bit clunky.

    • sompreno@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Whats wrong with organic? I’ve used all of these and it felt almost identical to comaps

      • Wilmo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        25·
        8 days ago

        https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

        Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community. These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.

        Which is why they forked CoMaps.

        • mak_sim_mak@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 days ago

          If you listen to the CoMaps developers’ perspective, they’re naturally going to talk up their competitors at Organic Maps. In any case, Organic Maps another open-source map, free and open to everyone. And new features are added much faster than in CoMaps (public transportation, hiking style, alternative routing). Try both options and choose the one that works best for you.

          • boonhet@lemmy.zip
            1·
            8 days ago

            Organic Maps is also technically committing tax fraud by paying the owners dividends but no salaries. They’re making quite a bit off the donations too. All of which was pocketed.

          • Wilmo@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            Why are 100% of your comments shilling for Organic Maps? Just curious.

            • boonhet@lemmy.zip
              1·
              8 days ago

              Maksim is a Russian name, Organic Maps creators are Russian and Belarussian. Could literally be a friend of theirs lol

  • Envidon@feddit.nl
    21·
    9 days ago

    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)

      • Envidon@feddit.nl
        2·
        8 days ago

        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.

  • fake_meows@sopuli.xyz
    21·
    8 days ago

    If it meets your requirements, try Vela Maps which is a degoogled Google Maps.

    " A degoogled maps & navigation client for Android - what NewPipe is to YouTube, for Google Maps. Open vector tiles for the basemap, the device itself scraping Google’s public web endpoints (per-user, no backend) for the things only Google does well: POI quality, routing, and traffic-aware ETAs. Built to run on GrapheneOS and other no-GMS ROMs. "

    I think it’s a fairly new product and seems to be rapidly improving performance with quite a few updates lately. (I have discovered some glitches but they seem to be addressed as soon as the app updates the next time.)

    It might meet your requirements because it’s not Google Maps.

    It might not meet your requirements if you want a truly no-Google product, because it uses a few Google things anonymously in the back end…

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    13·
    8 days ago

    Comaps works well for me. If it’s not comprehensive enough, contribute! OSM is crowd-sourced.

  • observes_depths@aussie.zone
    11·
    8 days ago

    From my own recent tests, Maps.me is good for finding businesses, citymapper is good for public transport, and TomTom is good for driving directions with live trafic.

    OSMAnd is amazing, customisable, can do everything (I use it for hiking, saving locations, and topography) but for things you’d use google for (finding businesses, driving, street view) google does those things much better.

    And PSA for those who don’t know, Waze is owned by google and maintained in Israel.

    • RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      8 days ago

      Waze is my Achilles heel when it comes to degoogling. I use OSMAnd~ frequently and love it (even considering getting a lifetime license), but with the multitude of options it has it’s missing a dedicated way for community driven police reports when driving. Absolutely essential feature in daily commutes for me. And not to mention I have to often find a location in GVmaps and manually input it to OSMAnd to be able to navigate to it since it’s missing so many.

  • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip
    11·
    8 days ago

    I’m using OSMAnd+ myself. CoMaps is another one that uses OSM as the backend but is much more minimal in design.

    For both, I use GeoShare which can interpet a google directions link when searching an address on my phone and pass it to OSMAnd+ or CoMaps (or, like, any other map app)

  • artifex@piefed.zipEnglish
    9·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • x7HlPDq9dSNO6v3A9@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 days ago

    I love Organic Maps. Works on Android and IOS. Fully offline (maps predownload at first run) and all route calculation is locally computed so it’s especially good for hiking or where signal is poor.

    Only thing I miss is live traffic updates but for me that’s an acceptable tradeoff for the ultimate offline privacy as far as a digital map can do it.

    The voice it uses is whatever’s built into the phone’s accessibility features so on some devices it sounds a bit janky, but on Android at least you can install different ones if that bothers you.