What's your go-to OSS navigation app? I've been trying the three in the title. CoMaps is a fork of Organic but Osm seems to be its own thing. Honestly haven't seen a reason yet to prefer one over another besides Osm's pretty bad name.
For transit I use Transit, it's not OSS but the company aligns strongly with me and I like that their employees get four-day workweeks: https://transitapp.com/vision However if there's a OSS alternative I'm not aware of I'm always willing to try it.
For finding businesses I would not expect much.. there seems to be no good answer that isn't Yelp or Google Maps, and of course that kinda goes by the nature of crowd sourced reviews and information. I have GMaps WV but it's kind clunky and I just ended up falling back to Maps unfortunately.
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ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 1y
I recently moved to CoMaps after having a positive experience with Organic Maps, specifically re: offline navigation capability.
Although the search in CoMaps could be better, it's still far superior than what I experienced with OsmAnd. In my opinion, CoMaps UX is vastly better than OsmAnd.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 1y
Magic Earth implements OpenStreetMap but is freeware, not open source. Unfortunately it's the only option I know of that has real-time traffic information.
This is really true. Businesses have a lot of incentive to add their own information to Google Maps and keep it up to date, not so much with OpenStreetMap.
illusionist@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Considering how many users osm has businesses have an incentive to keep it up to date. But they simply don't know about it. Adding opening hours is 5 minutes for a business. They would add it if they would know about it. But they use only gmaps and they don't even think about what others use.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 1y
It's really not enough incentive. The difference in scale is massive.
By comparison, OSM doesn't even register, it's a rounding error.
Knowing that should be giving you a clue about how much market penetration there actually is.
Doubtful. The businesses that benefit the most from having things like operating hours easily accessible are small retail storefronts and restaurants (e.g. not places with dedicated IT teams). For a small business owner, they're probably going to ask "how is this worth my time?"
illusionist@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
Osmand for everything except car navigation. Magic earth is a little bit better for that but I hope osmand gets there as well
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 1y
OsmAnd won't get there without live traffic data, but for that to work the users have to accept live location tracking. Magic Earth's traffic data depends on active users allowing the app to collect location, direction and speed in order to create a real-time traffic flow estimate, exactly the same way that Google Maps does it. I seriously doubt that this feature will be added to OsmAnd anytime soon.
artiman@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y
Used to use comaps now I use OsmAnd i will look at comaps again when the UI Refactor is done
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
On Linux mobile Puremaps is nice.
surfhosting@mastodon.pirateparty.be · 1 pts · 1y
@cm0002 I don't have cellular service and have had a good experience with Organic Maps, recently switched to CoMaps.
search in those apps could be improved, but it's a LOT better than when I treid OsmAnd in the past. I find CoMaps vastly more usable than OsmAnd.
I still don't have a replacement for Backcountry Navigator for hiking and such. it's not FOSS but very good, with an excellent selection of free & pay maps - some of the pay maps are worth it.