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I use it all the time! Works great.

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Maybe it depends on where you live. For me it’s close to useless.

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the whole thing about it using OSM data is that you can just fix that, spend a week surveying and you have the most high-detail navigation available.

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Organic maps is the goat, looking forward to their linux build becoming more stable

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Organic maps is probably my favourite osm app for general use. I still have OsmAnd for various purposes, and I use Magic Earth when driving for the included traffic calculations. I hope that Organic Maps can generate some traffic data in the future. Though, I imagine for it to work well, some sort of open sharing of traffic data would need to happen to avoid fragmentation between apps.

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Sadly crowd sourced traffic info isn’t included in lots of countries such as mine :(

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Thanks for the magic earth rec! Is it FOSS?

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No, but it’s an alternative to GMaps or HERE WeGo for car navigation.

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As Kilgore said, it isn’t FOSS. And while it’s hard to prove, they claim they don’t collect any user data, and instead make their money through partnering with businesses.

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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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Organic Maps is great. Recently learned about Geo Share, which makes my job doing deliveries possible with Organic Maps. It basically redirects gMaps links to Organic Maps (even from food delivery apps).

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