Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation
organicmaps.app
Fast detailed offline maps for travelers, tourists, drivers, hikers and cyclists created by MapsWithMe (Maps.Me) app founders.

Sadly there is no browser view, but they have selection of app stores on their page for the app (and IIRC they are working on a desktop version).

It has routing, searching, more map details (e.g. park benches, trash bins on the map), OSM editing, and pretty slick look in my opinion.

I recently switched to Organic Maps after learning about it here on Lemmy and haven’t touched Google Maps as much. I know it is not a perfect 100% replacement, but while it lacks certain things (e.g. public transport, but I use local public transport app anyway for better accuracy), it has so many features google lacks:

  • hiking trail overlay that is more up-to-date
  • stores maps on your phone in vector format (offline use is so much nicer)
  • privacy focused

There is more to this than I know and write here, and probably many here already know about Organic Maps since there was the whole fiasco of google removing this app from play store awhile back, but thought it’s cool that the company behind it is in Estonia (man I still remember Skype, thanks Estonia ❤️ I’ve spent so much time on skype before it was aquired by Microsoft).

Edit to add extra info from website: Company is based in Tallinn, Estonia - Organic Maps OÜ

  • ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
    3·
    19 hours ago

    I use this for walking and cycling, but I don’t like it for driving. I’m currently trying out HERE for that. Not FOSS, but it’s Dutch and so far it seems decent, though it heavily relies on openstreetmaps for its data, so it can be quite outdated (my workplace’s location is still where it was before it moved more than 5 years ago). It also needs a separate voice engine, so if anyone has a good replacement for Google’s speech services, please let me know. I have yet to find a good one for the Dutch language.

    • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzOPM
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Hmm, don’t know about Dutch speech in the engine but I recently saw a post about a speech engine that I haven’t had an opportunity to try: maybe you could see if it is somewhat bearable?

      But yeah this is buy european so while I’m a foss enthusiast it’s not the main point of this sub - proprietary products are welcome as long as they are European (continent, not just European Union/EEA/ETA). I already used Organic Maps and happened to notice it’s Estonian and wanted to share here :)

      Thanks for sharing which apps you use! I’ve already been able to share some stuff elsewhere from this thread thanks to people sharing their personal preferences!

      • ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
        2·
        5 hours ago

        a speech engine that I haven’t had an opportunity to try

        Yeah, I tried SherpaTTS and eSpeak, but they’re quite awful, at least for Dutch. Thanks though