Privacy @lemmy.ml Possibly linux @lemmy.zip 1y ago

OsmAnd maps is great

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I agree that the idea is great but I have yet to find one single address that I need to get to using the osmand app, which kind of makes it useless. It seems incredibly difficult to use.
- It's because OsmAnd has some serious issues searching for certain addresses. It's not an OpenStreetMaps problem, but an issue with the app. Organic Maps is better. Magic Earth is even better. Note: only talking about address searching. OsmAnd still has a ton of other useful features.
  
  If I need to use OsmAnd, sometimes I'll copy the plus code from Google Maps, as that translates to GPS coordinates.
  
  Sure it could be the app not going to deny that. It does feel like the app has so much to offer but it's difficult to use. I have heard Magic Earth is good but since this is the privacy community I didn't mention it or compare it to osm since it's not FOSS.
  
  Copying codes from one source into osmand still breaks your privacy though because your using Google so might as well continue using Google. I'm not super paranoid or anything but for privacy sake I'd say unless I can contain my use case to the app (and osm) it doesn't work out.
  
  I hope the entire movement grows 😁
- North America? You need this: https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation/releases
- are there any OSM maps that have the addresses?
  
  I can see the addresses in Osmand but can't search them in the app
IMO OrganicMaps is a better OSM app.
- Organic maps lacks a lot of features.
  
  I agree, but I'd say it meets the needs of most users. Anyone that needs additional features should try osmand.
Some shameless advertising: there is an OpenStreetMap-community on lemmy: !openstreema0@lemmy.ml
Is there a way to make it pull some data on road closures from google maps? There's a lot of construction on my way to work right now so I rely on google maps to pick the fastest routes, which it does well. OSM just doesn't have the data to do that.
- OSM is just map data. No navigation. You can add any routing engine, the problem is, google does not share that data.
- Osmand can't use google data because its proprietary.
  
  What I do is I just give myself extra time to get to my destination.
  
  With osm I take the shortcuts that are not on google.
  
  I was hoping it could be scraped somehow, but yeah, that's very non-trivial for something like maps.
- Gmaps WV
Testflight link can be found here: https://osmand.net/docs/versions/nightly_versions/
- I think I'll stick with stable
  
  Testflight = free in app purchases

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