It took a few months preparation but I deleted all my google accounts today, and it feels good.

  • BolexForSoup
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    610 months ago

    Is the app itself ready for prime time yet? Can I use it daily? I live in a small but major city.

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      If you can contribute, that would be great. Especially business names and addresses. The best thing I have found to do is get an address from a place via the internet and plug that into gps-coordinates.net and use the first 7 numbers like 31.12345 -82.12345 into osmand when navigating. Then when i arrive i add it to osm so nobody can claim i stole data from another mapping service.

      • Cows Look Like Maps
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        810 months ago

        There’s several apps to use open street map data. Organic Maps and OSMAnd to name a few. I use a bit of both along with Waze when needed.

        • @odium
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          310 months ago

          I’ve tried them and prefer Magic Earth.

          Also, you can contribute to make the maps more complete with Street Complete.

          • Lemongrab
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            Magic Earth is proprietary FYI. Good privacy policy and good service, only real problem I have is its not FOSS.

            • @odium
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              Yeah, that is an issue. I just like its features and UI the most.

              If you want a good comparision of the apps you can go to the open street maps wiki