I’ve been proudly using Lineage OS with microg on my phone for a while now, and while it wasn’t ideal, it was good for my daily use.

Now that i’m traveling, however, i really miss some important features, like a properly working geolocation service (i’m using the Mozilla one and it’s slow and buggy), and a proper navigator, sad to say that google maps works just too well for certain things like buses or trains.

Magic earth was okay till i moved with car, i could get a position on google maps and then get there with my car and the navigator was working good, however when i need to move by foot or transports is terrible, it takes 10 minutes to find your position approximatively, only working with mobile data, and it doesn’t follow you when you move…

So i found myself in some unhappy situations where i would need to rely on someone else’s phone to not get lost in a city or to call an uber to my right location. I also got lost when i needed to move only by walking. Of course you can get wherever you want with older methods, like asking to people or signs, but sometimes you just need quick solutions that are reliable.

Is there any real way to use gmaps unonimously except that with the containerized version that graphebe offers?

I do not really want to buy a Pixel and give google more money.

  • @xi00
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    121 year ago

    Have you tried OSMand? I used it for navigation by foot and car, and in many cases it has equally nice public transport as gmaps. Otherwise I only use the local apps from each provider, so WienMobil and Scotty for Vienna/Austria for example, because google does not know about outages or disruptions in many cases. But that’s my experience in Europe, so your mileage may vary.

    • @nurple
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      41 year ago

      OSM is a lot dodgier in the US - and it doesn’t have live traffic, which is crucial in some cities.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      I tried osmand, but was working even worse with finding my position and getting me to places

      • zeluko
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        11 year ago

        I love OSMAnd combined with BRouter to get better and much faster routing calculation.

        Not sure what you mean with “Working worse with finding my position”.
        Its just GPS, not something magical you have to horribly wait for.
        Maybe your GPS isnt working well?