I use Komoot for wild walking and biking, and it’s incredible. Hugely more accurate and reliable. Just wondering if there’s something like that for city and intercity travel. Thanks for suggestions!
Since you’re talking about city travel, do you care about traffic? That has been my main issue with any alternatives.
- Osmand: solid overall, you do need to buy Osmand+ in the play store if you need Android Auto functionality though (the f-droid version does not work with AA). But no traffic data so you’ll get the best route if there was no traffic. Another quirk is that you need to download the region you’re navigating in - you can view maps online but can’t navigate without the downloaded maps. And downloads are large chunks - it is by country or state/province so you’re likely using a lot of storage that you don’t need.
- OrganicMaps: a cleaner interface than Osmand while using the same map data. No Android Auto support. It still needs to download maps but can auto download as you go and uses smaller chunks so you can download more locally.
- MapFactor: one of the early offline options on Android before Google Maps offered the option to download. It has traffic data but I’ve found routing to be mediocre. It’s also subscription based rather than a purchase.
Definitely for osmand+, I think this is one of the best opensource app on Android (and the fact being openstreetmap based is a definitive plus because you can correct the map for benefit of the community).
I have also noticed Google maps keeps getting worse…why
is there any Google product that is not getting worse though?
I would say Android is doing great ngl. As long as you have a clean rom and not some samsung shit over it or whatever
Samsung’s One UI is great.
I suspect it’s probably the prelude to “Subscribe to Maps Pro for more accurate directions!!!”
I hear a lot of people praise Organic Maps but I haven’t tried it personally.
Would you be able to let us know how Google Maps is getting worse?
Took me the wrong direction multiple times, wrong entrances three times, twice tried to send me the wrong way up a one way. Every time you stop, and put in a new destination, it assumes you’ve turned round 180° and gives you wrong directions to start with, then takes 30 seconds to correct itself. While walking, it constantly thinks you’re walking backwards. This is over the course of a 5 day trip
It’s fucking infuriating now!
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll look it up!
You might need to calibrate the compass in your phone
Yeah I did that constantly, with the tip and tilt movement. Is there another way?
Mine just recently embedded advertisements for businesses inside the map navigation screen itself, I just want to drive without seeing coupons for Firestone
