cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18747630
“We aren’t a monopoly”
Best Map out there.
Wait are we talking about this one?
If so, I just looked it up…I mean, its there.
I didn’t know about Organic Maps so I installed it for the first time. I registered to openstreetmaps and added 5 places. This is great 😸
Yeah, it’s great to help contribute like that, I live in a really small town so the map was quite out of date, so I patched it up. OSM is slowly becoming a legitimate competitor with Google Maps and Apple Maps in terms of data quality and Google is cowering in fear that a libre, ad-free app will be far better than their closed-source, ad-infested, data-selling app.
Also check out StreetComplete! It’s an app that gamifies adding information to OSM
I recently started a trek to de-googleify it’s going to be a long road.
I pulled down all the big free map contenders.
They’ll all, without a doubt, will get me to the grocery store down the road.
They’re all pretty decent at obeying one-way streets and u-turn limits.
More mixed results on business hours.
Most of them start having trouble on really long distance trips.
Many are missing creature comforts like multi-stop planning, I’m not sure which if any support dynamic remapping due to traffic.
The ones I were playing with did not provide me lane guidance on which lanes go left and right.
If Google maps and Waze stopped working tomorrow I could still use most of the free-ish street map variants, but I would miss a lot of features.
