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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2026
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Anecdotal but my phone battery life has been greatly improved since I disabled Google Maps. I was hitting the 20% warning routinely before end of day previously, and now I typically have 30-40% when I plug it in at night.
On a related note, MapQuest offers Android Auto integration, and the turn-by-turn experience has been adequate in my admittedly limited testing.
YMMV.
It's a truism amongst gapps-free ROM and also all sorts of adblock users.
And yea, OSM has vastly improved in the past decade to the point that it's just as - if not more - reliable as Google's maps.
Disclaimer: people pointing out the convenience of Google products will be ridiculed. Even traffic jam prediction.
mapquest doesn't seem to have anything to do with OSM, sadly
Indeed. Thanks.