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A FOSS project that’s actually good

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Name one that is not.

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The other OSM mobile apps? GIMP? Any Paint clones for linux? Libreoffice? Or even the entire linux desktop stack? Most of the garbage in FDroid?

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What about OSMAnd?

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Honestly guys. I’ve used organic maps and osmand. Don’t like both. For my roadtrip I plan on using Waze or something. For some reason it’s so slow and buggy on my device, osmand crashes everytime and organic maps doesn’t have enough data of all the small places on the roadtrip.

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There is unfortunately only one way for smaller businesses (or any for that matter) to show up, and that is people contributing to osm itself.

Edit: a word.

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Its not about contributing to the map data. There’s quite few quality issues with organic maps, from small things in the UI to how it calculates the navigation from A to B. I want to like organic maps, but its still far from usable for me. I do however regularly contribute to OSM - mainly thanks to streetcomplete.

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how it calculates the navigation from A to B

It’s still dependent on the quality of map data.

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Excellent point. Maybe I can get back on StreetComplete and help out

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Been using Magic Earth with Android Auto, and it’s been working great. I prefer it over Organic Maps. While I prefer Organic’s privacy focus, it was laggy on my phone and search also was more fussy and difficult to find things.

I love offline maps. I only have data enabled when I want internet access.

Magic Earth can do directions for walking without data enabled. Google Maps with an offline map still requires data to generate a route for walking.

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Why aren’t they on fdroid?

Penguin pondering

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It hits the “tethered network services” anti-feature which is hidden by default in F-droid.

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