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NeonWoofGenesis
l.henlo.fi

I use this for everything except driving. Organic Maps also makes it easy to add new new points to openstreetmaps :)

For driving I use Magic Earth. Not open source but their privacy policy states they don't sell your data or store PII.

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sanporeply
sopuli.xyz

Seems like Organic Maps aren't saints either.

Apparently the recent lack of updates on F-Droid is due to them including referral links for hotels and refusing to remove it or make it an opt-out feature...

Here's a relevant issue if anyone's interested: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/7218

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Looking at the discussions it's even worse, the devs try to argue that F-Droid is being unfair and referral links shouldn't be "misclassified" as ads...

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verysoftreply
kbin.social

Yeah they advertise no ads, but then have referral links to Kayak in their app. Seems like the main devs have gone off their rockers.

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raptirreply
lemdro.id

They're also doing the same thing with Google Play - arguing that collecting user emails for osm login doesn't count as collecting data.

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iturnedintoanewtreply
lemmy.world

I always worry with Magic Earth... What's their business plan then? How are they making money?

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Runwaylightsreply
lemmy.world

I tried using Magic Earth and especially the driving mode is great and sometimes it worked flawlessly but I regularly had freezes and crashes. Do you have any issues with it?

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NeonWoofGenesisreply
l.henlo.fi

No unfortunately I haven't had crashes during my 2 years of using it, running on LineageOS with and without microg.

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hemko
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Organic maps is just damn great, the default any time I need to use map for routes or just whatever on phone

Also osm (and Organic maps using osm) has so much better coverage for smaller trails and forest roads than gmaps it's crazy

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ashtrix
lemmy.ca

Organic maps is great. Google maps needs data to open even when you have offline maps stored lol

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speck
kbin.social

My quibble with it is the way that parks and such aren't properly delineated. And they disappear depending on your zoom level

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bitwolf
lemmy.one

If you like Organic Maps.

Consider installing StreetComplete , it makes it very easy to contribute to OpenStreetMaps!

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Varyk
sh.itjust.works

Has anyone also used maps me as a comparison?

That's what I usually use, I haven't heard of organic maps until recently.

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Possibly linuxreply
lemmy.zip

"They're the same picture"

Organic maps is a continuation of the old Maps.me as far as I understand.

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Varykreply
sh.itjust.works

Oh, haha, I'm still using maps me, have they stopped updating? I always manage to keep using an app that I haven't noticed hasn't updated in forever.

Thanks

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Auli
lemmy.ca

I just wish they would have android auto. It's been years since it was a summer of code thing and it never gets done.

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bitwolf
lemmy.one

This app has saved my tail so many times. I tell everyone to install it

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