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Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc (midwest.social)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by magguzu@midwest.social to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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What's your go-to OSS navigation app? I've been trying the three in the title. CoMaps is a fork of Organic but Osm seems to be its own thing. Honestly haven't seen a reason yet to prefer one over another besides Osm's pretty bad name.

For public transit (trains buses etc) I use Transit, it's not OSS but the company aligns strongly with me and I like that their employees get four-day workweeks: https://transitapp.com/vision However if there's a OSS alternative I'm not aware of I'm always willing to try it.

For finding businesses I would not expect much.. there seems to be no good answer that isn't Yelp or Google Maps, and of course that kinda goes by the nature of crowd sourced reviews and information. I have GMaps WV but it's kind clunky and I just ended up falling back to Maps unfortunately.

EDIT: Forgot to mention biking. I live in a not-so-bike friendly suburb and have actually found that Google gives me WORSE bike routes than OsmAnd, for what it's worth. The OSM route tends to be more roundabout but safer. My guess is you get more urbanist minded people contributing to these, so that's nice to see.

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[-] eodur@piefed.social 1 points 11 months ago

I try to use OsmAnd when I can. Its probably the best FOSS option. My Google alternative is Magic Earth, which is not FOSS, but is powered by OSM and more privacy friendly than Google.

I was happily impressed by how active the contributor community for OSM is. I got good feedback on my contributions. Its so satisfying to see the map improve based on your efforts.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

For road nav I have found Organic Maps to be better than Osmand but both sort of suck. Neither are as good as a Garmin non-connected GPS from the 1990s. I haven't tried Comaps. Organic's map data is just fine, but it is pretty terrible at navigating and not so good at route finding. Also you get huge bloaty map updates 1x a month or so. The roads don't move around that fast! I hate Google but I usually end up using Google Maps unless I don't mind long delays while Organic gets its act together.

For hiking Organic is supposed to be great, though I haven't used it much that way myself.

For transit, as far as I can tell, everything sucks including Google.

[-] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

For public transit in many different countries, I used to rely on Transportr but since it's not being properly maintained and some countries stopped working, I've been relying on Öffi (Directions, Stations, Plans) instead. It presents the connections in a kind of time-based chart instead of a list, but I actually find it quite good after getting used to it.

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