It took a few months preparation but I deleted all my google accounts today, and it feels good.
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Is the app itself ready for prime time yet? Can I use it daily? I live in a small but major city.
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.
Sounds good!
I have found it to be functional but very spartan. Maybe don’t drop Google maps in the meantime, but it’s worth testing out
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.
I’ve tried them and prefer Magic Earth.
Also, you can contribute to make the maps more complete with Street Complete.
Magic Earth is proprietary FYI. Good privacy policy and good service, only real problem I have is its not FOSS.
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
Thanks! You too LWD!