• erenkoylu@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    OrganicMaps is amazing. Strong recommend to everyone. I only recently found out about it.

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      8 months ago

      Same, I have recently installed LineageOS on my phone and was looking for various replacements for Goggle apps. What I really like about OrganicMaps is that it downloads the maps locally, so you can view it even if you aren’t connected to the internet.

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          @yetiftw @ILikePigeons

          IIRC At one point Google Maps would let you download a map for browsing, but you couldn’t do offline navigation. Don’t know if that’s still the case.

          Organic Maps does the routing on the device.

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          8 months ago

          Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. I should have really had this information a year ago when I was constantly screenshotting Google Maps, LOL.

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          8 months ago

          The feature looks made ugly on purpose though (compared to organic maps where you can just download the whole country or select more precisely what you want)

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        8 months ago
        • It has the map corpus from OpenStreetMap, so one of the best in the world
        • It works offline - just download the desired maps onto the device
        • That makes it really, really fast. Google Maps is slower
        • You can also use it in areas with bad reception. I’m using it for hiking in the woods where there is no cell phone connection available
        • I really like the UI - they are f.e. better at displaying house numbers and street names than Google.
        • No ads
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          Google’s maps are decent and can also be downloaded to be offline…? But yeah, it seems like it’s a nice alternative, especially if you want to be free from Google’s grips.

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          8 months ago

          On the hiking note, it also shows a lot of trails. I used it to navigate to a trail head and was pleasantly surprised to see a rough outline of the trails I would be using plus some others I didn’t know were there.

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    Absolutely love organic maps for cycling! It recommendeds sensible routes that are much safer. The only feature I miss (and I know organic maps strives for 100% feature completeness even offline so this would be unlikely to be added) is navigation using public transit in the UK. The national rail app is painfully slow and isn’t easy to just search a location and just go, but it does work. Every bus company has their own app too… I haven’t found a good replacement yet unfortunately :/

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      Magic Earth (while not FOSS, it’s privacy oriented though) can do this.

      There’s also Transportr, but AFAIK it’s been unmaintained for quite a while now, so it may not work / stop working soon.

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    the biggest problem I have with switching is that Google Maps is a business directory. open street maps is empty where i live. it works okay for navigation, but not so much for finding a coffee.

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    8 months ago

    Does the app have:

    • Location sharing
    • Live traffic updates
    • Public transportation

    Missing one of these is a deal breaker.

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      1. Yes, you can share location, the widgets aren’t as fancy as Google integration with everything.

      2. Not feasible without the constant data harvesting in the background, which it doesn’t do. It doesn’t log your every move as Google does. Privacy vs surveillance, will always be at odds.

      3. Depending on the area. In my country public transportation is way better on OSM than on Gmaps. Oftentimes Gmaps won’t even have large structures like train stations or bus terminals. It depends on users and contributors.

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        1. It would be cool if there was an opt-in libre database to which we could submit pseudonymous traffic data. It would be hard to prevent sybil attacks though.
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      internet explorer, yahoo mail, myspace, icq… things change. unfortunately it’s mostly due to a huge company having the resources to promote their product to convince people to migrate but still. people can leave old giants.

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          i think proton is getting shittified as well but you should make a post listing all these alternatives for different services, rather than peppering them in the comments.

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      The same can be said about Lemmy and Reddit, but look where we are.

      We need to support open-source projects and stop being simps for bad companies like Google.

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        The difficulty is asking people to get started with this. People want to get to work/navigate as quickly as possible to where they need to be, they don’t want to be figuring it out. Social media can be janky and you’ll be patient, but if you’re late for something because you’re struggling to adjust to an app you’re more likely to go back to Google/Apple Maps

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      Openstreetmap is better than Google where I live (Anatolian side of İstanbul).

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      Take a definition of ACTIVE contributors, because both projects have a lot of inactive contributors that only registered and didn’t do anything but just one update and left, if any.

      Google is known for dropping projects that they can’t monetize enough. Maps’ been around for a while, but it can always just disappear for public use. Or decide that you need a Google account too use it and that’s a privacy nightmare. We need alternatives, but in this case, we need free and open source alternatives. We can’t put all the eggs in the same basket.

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    Can’t we script a complete copy of Google maps data (shops, highways etc) to this? Is the API restricted? Can we run distributed jobs for it? I can spin up some compute if someone is interested in trying this

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        There’s a small learning curve I wish some bothered to understand first. Does this app help? The part of this I don’t like is vacationers leaving useless names like ‘Mango lady’, ‘many street vendors’ for a block, or ‘local restaurant’ since they can’t read the sign as opposed marking up the cuisine type, maybe adding an English description, & leaving the name blank. Nobody expects uploads to be perfect but Bangkok is littered with this noise that makes it hard to follow or find things.

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          It takes effort and knowledge to make good contributions, this app is just a tool to do that.

          I can only say I myself try to make valuable contributions, some other people might care less.

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          I think EveryDoor requires some relatively deep understanding of OSM before actually being a useful tool. So edits like this should be rare with that tool. Many of the edits like this are from when MapsMe was very popular and suddenly introduced editing, without enough nuance in the process. Bad edits do happen everywhere, you need a good balance between people who data curation and newbies making beginner mistakes. In some places, there’s a lack of experienced people maintaining the data.

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    8 months ago

    I didn’t know about Organic-Maps. I used Osmand, which has a subscription fee for downloading maps.

    Thx!

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      I didn’t have to pay for it, installed from F-Droid, and I can download any map I’ve tried so far. When I’m traveling I like to pre-download the standard map for the whole state if it’s one I don’t already have installed. It’s nice to not have to worry about data / reception.

      Overall OsmAnd is a pretty good GPS-map-navigation app, but has several annoyances and bugs. Still better than using Google’s app to me. I need to check out Organic maps too

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      Osmand saved my ass multiple times hiking in very remote locations. Absolutely worth the subscription!

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        Definetly one of the subscriptions I don’t regret as much as others but still a steep cost for my frequency of usage. I need it approx 6 weeks per year and only as backup when traveling/hiking.

        A free alternative (simply Osm) is much appreciated.

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        Anything that keeps maps in local storage so you can use GPS while offline is somewhere between very helpful and lifesaving. Sounds like Osmand is in there.

        Organic Maps lets you download also. I got it specifically for backpacking because it enabled that. It certainly has been worth the $0. I should probably donate something each trip.