there’s osm, but that doesn’t have the convenience of being able to just chuck in a place and have it tell me how to drive there, which I need if I’m at a red light and need to know how to get somewhere. ty :)
there’s osm, but that doesn’t have the convenience of being able to just chuck in a place and have it tell me how to drive there, which I need if I’m at a red light and need to know how to get somewhere. ty :)
And it doesn’t work. You have to know an address, and even then sometimes it’ll route you to the wrong location. Anyway, that was my experience using it for a few months. About a 20% success rate where I live.
I’ve resorted to using latlong to look up an address, then copy & paste the coordinates into OSM+. It’s not great, but it works. I’m looking for something better so I can still use OSM+ and was hoping to find it here.
My ideal solution is an app that registers as a mapping app so I can tap an address and it’ll pop up, look up the coordinates then push to the clipboard or push as an address and I can choose OSM+.
Good tip. Until an app can reasonably look up an address, it’s not a very good map/navigation app.
I wouldn’t say that it’s not a good app, but that it’s a feature that hasn’t been implemented yet. There’s a lot to like. For me, full offline and being FOSS are the two big ones. It does get me where I want to go!
Since this post, I read another post about contributing to OSM to make it better, so I started with Street Complete, logging addresses, bus stops and answering questions about the places I go. With a copilot, I even went and entered all the addresses of houses in a smallish neighborhood, over 200 entries! I like to believe that doing that may help improve the address lookup for somebody.
Weird, just dropping a pin on the map works for me. I don’t use it a lot, but I just tried a dozen times at random and it worked every time.
One thing I agree is that address lookup is terrible. There are times where I cannot find a place on Osmand that I check in google maps where it is, then go Osmand and move the view to the same location myself. Not practical.
But: routing to wrong location. Almost never, for me it works perfectly. A few versions ago the announcement to take a turn would come a bit late, might have been my phone, no idea. Works fine now. The only problem are road works in the city, Osm is not very current and it might route you wrong then, yeah.
Twice in a neighboring city i’ve been routed to the wrong location. They use street/avenue for ns/ew so maybe the map had them backwards. My input was correct and it found an address both times.