I’ve been using CoMaps for a while as my only map app and I’m very happy with it.
If it meets your requirements, try Vela Maps which is a degoogled Google Maps.
" A degoogled maps & navigation client for Android - what NewPipe is to YouTube, for Google Maps. Open vector tiles for the basemap, the device itself scraping Google’s public web endpoints (per-user, no backend) for the things only Google does well: POI quality, routing, and traffic-aware ETAs. Built to run on GrapheneOS and other no-GMS ROMs. "
I think it’s a fairly new product and seems to be rapidly improving performance with quite a few updates lately. (I have discovered some glitches but they seem to be addressed as soon as the app updates the next time.)
It might meet your requirements because it’s not Google Maps.
It might not meet your requirements if you want a truly no-Google product, because it uses a few Google things anonymously in the back end…
Super cool. had no idea that existed
This needs to be made a library so that someone can write an OsmAnd plugin for the POI search.
Comaps is what I use because it is free, Osmand+ is what you should use if you are willing to pay a bit, but don’t use Organic Maps.
Osmand is free on fdroid. Comaps is probably a better google maps substitute for most people though. Osmand has deep features but is comparitively a bit clunky.
Whats wrong with organic? I’ve used all of these and it felt almost identical to comaps
https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community. These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.
Which is why they forked CoMaps.
Oh wow, thanks for letting me know
Co-maps generally works good for me, bht the bjg disadvantage is it has no traffic data (I think this might be inherently incompatable with standard foss, would love to be wrong though). So my go to when driving is HERE wego, which works well and is up to date (and not evil as far as I know)
came here to say comaps. they are also wprking on live traffic
Ow that is super exciting, I figured it would be a festure not in line with theil way their map functions (as you need to download everything). Glad to be wrong.
Thanks for the recommendation for GMapsWV. I didn’t know about that, and have always felt very uncomfortable when using Google Maps to find restaurants and such that aren’t always listed in OSM.
I had this talk with a friend the other week, but I can’t recommend enough that if something OSM based isn’t showing correctly, you can always add it in once you find the right answer. For example, if it doesn’t have hours listed for a business, I’ll go to their website and copy that data in, or if the address doesn’t show up right, I’ll edit the building with the correct address. I found the other day that the address for my apartment was listed over a garage up the street instead of my building and I just removed the one and added in the other.
I completely fixed my neighborhood of 800 homes. took me a week. I drew in the house shapes and the heights, turned the row home blocks into individual linked blocks with exact addresses and accurate sidewalks.
I’ve never added in height before. Does it just look for number of stories, or how did you find that info?
When you make an area->structure in osm, you can add it in the height meta in meters.
When an app uses the OSM data to draw a 3d structure, it can use your height data. (and most appear to)
I meant more how did you find the height of the structures? Is it listed in a property database somewhere or are all the houses roughly the size of yours so you just used that as a base?
I live in a neighborhood with 3 house styles; each has a fixed number of floors. The townhomes all have 8’ ceilings, a basement, 1st, a second floor, and an attic or loft. All basements are walkout so i count them. I-joists are about 18 inches. So the townhomes are ~ 11 meters.
The single family are basement, 1st, and second, with 10" main floor and 8" second floor, then they have 16’ attics, which puts them ~ 13m
The apartment complex has 5 fixed floors. It was trickier because I don’t know the internal structure, nor the height of the decorative crowns, so I took a Google Earth look at the side of the building, drew a 45-degree line down from the top, and measured the bottom of the triangle
Trying to learn, what is the advantage of GMapsVW versus opening Google Maps in a mobile browser?
Quoting their github page
- Clears private data on close
- Blocks access to Google trackers and other third-party resources
- Restricts all network requests to HTTPS
- Allows toggling of location permission
Thank you!
If OSM isn’t good enough, make it better.
I spent an hour improving my hometown but that’s not where I need a map. I need it in places where I don’t know if it’s right or wrong.
truth is OSM has proven to be more accurate in areas I frequent vs Gmaps. We’ve got into multiple “situations” because of Gmaps
Like what?
like leading us the wrong way. Or completely ignoring existence oh our house.
I’ve never seen it get my home location incorrect… And the only wrong ways I’ve seen it involve are roadblocks.
consider yourself lucky then
Not op but one i encountered was that gmaps kept sending people down a private road with a locked gate before someone submitted feedback and got it changed
Comaps works well for me. If it’s not comprehensive enough, contribute! OSM is crowd-sourced.
OrganicMaps: https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps
I heard of issues* with OrganicMaps not being fully open source**, I switched to CoMaps instead. Still use OSM and seems to function pretty well
Edited spelling bc I was typing too fast and didn’t proof read.
I don’t understand your comment
Sorry, typed too fast and didn’t proof read…
More context https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
Np, my mobile keyboard sucked too, but it’s slowly getting better, using futo keyboard swipe
I go between FUTO and Helioboard 😅
Suppose Isis is supposed to be issue, ai should be and
CoMaps, which uses OpenStreetMap. StreetComplete gamifies adding data to OpenStreetMap.
Sometimes Magic Earth.The only time i use google is when i want street view.
Removed by mod
I use both, but I use OSMAnd~ for mobile mapping, and CoMaps for navigation.
I was using organic until CoMaps forked it, now CoMaps is the way. It’s open street map so you can sign up and fix whatever you want, pull down the next version and it’s there.
I do miss street view,
voiced street names, and really miss cowdsourced hazards from waze but it’s worth it if you’re not on a long high speed trip.edit: turns out you can turn on tts street names
From my own recent tests, Maps.me is good for finding businesses, citymapper is good for public transport, and TomTom is good for driving directions with live trafic.
OSMAnd is amazing, customisable, can do everything (I use it for hiking, saving locations, and topography) but for things you’d use google for (finding businesses, driving, street view) google does those things much better.
And PSA for those who don’t know, Waze is owned by google and maintained in Israel.
Waze is my Achilles heel when it comes to degoogling. I use OSMAnd~ frequently and love it (even considering getting a lifetime license), but with the multitude of options it has it’s missing a dedicated way for community driven police reports when driving. Absolutely essential feature in daily commutes for me. And not to mention I have to often find a location in GVmaps and manually input it to OSMAnd to be able to navigate to it since it’s missing so many.
good or better then google maps, no, they’re are a trillion $ company with major resoirces
I use OSMAnd+ its a little bit shit but ot gets me by. I also edit a little bit of Open Street maps in my area to help
This right here; if I can ever manage to get my transmission fixed, I can start recording my DoorDash trips, again. OSM is painfully lacking info in my city.
Time to get some oil on your hands!
Err probably not. But what transmission and what are the issues you’re having? Might be something much simpler than you think
It’s primarily an issue of getting the necessary tools to be able to drop the bastich in the first place, and then figuring out when to do it, because now is absolutely not the time in the southeastern United States.
MapQuest is a perfectly reasonable commercial alternative that has all of the things you’d expect - dynamically-loaded map tiles, turn-by-turn nav, etc. If you want to look at options that use OpenStreetMap data, I’ve found CoMaps to be very good. The biggest drawback is that you have to download maps (~100-300MB per geo area) all at once, which can be a problem if you’re on the road and don’t have great signal strength.
