Are there any good apps to use as a replacement for google maps? It’s the only google service I’m still using.
OpenStreetMaps with whatever client is available for your device of choice. Organic Maps is great on mobile.
#MagicEarth as online SatNav, #OSMAnd as offline navigation. For train/bus #Offi. If I search for a chippie or something, #gmapswv . All of them available at #FDroid store
Osmand from fdroid
It just kind of sucks compared to maps. You need to know the exact address of the place you want to navigate to, you can’t type the name of the place.
Odd, i can type like mcdonald’s and it works. Mind you, not all stores are on there, so you might not get the absolute closest one to you, but it does work. If you know one that’s closer to you, you should definitely add it for yourself in the future and everybody else. I have the biggest problem with residential addresses where i have to use gps-coordinates.net to convert to lat/long and then use that in osmand
I’m using Organic Maps which is on f-droid… It’s not as good as Google maps for traffic directions but it’s good enough most of the time. I fall back on Google maps when necessary.
There is also Osmand which I don’t like as much. But that’s just me.
I use Organic Maps
I use Magic Earth for driving directions and Organic Maps for looking around on a map, as imo Magic Earth sucks for inspecting a map.
I occasionally pair them with Transportr for public transit.
I do also still keep Google Maps around, as it just still is the best app for navigation. Sometimes I will check which rough route Google Maps prefers, and then use Magic Earth for the actual navigation.
If you want to fully ditch the Google Maps app without losing Google Maps completely, you could also try GMaps WV, a WebView wrapper for the Google Maps website.
Is there one that let’s you filter out chain restaurants?
Or block certain businesses?
EDIT : project seems abandoned.
If you are looking for certain businesses there is CityZen: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cityzen.cityzenOpenStreetMap based city navigation app that helps you explore your city easily. The app shows points of interest in different categories such as ATMs, gas stations, drugstores, mobile phone stores etc. based on your location and it does so without keeping your data. If you are an OSM contributor you can also edit or add POIs directly from the app.
That hasn’t had an update in 4 years. There has to be security issues with that, right?
Thanks for spotting that.
I like Magic Earth on Android. I admit to not having done thorough investigation on all the privacy aspects, but the FOSS solutions cannot (could not?) offer me voiced directions in my own language without installing the Google voice pack software and I only use navigation about three times a year, so I stuck with Magic Earth.
I think Organic Maps can do that, possibly with the help of RHVoice.
Other TTS engines can surely work, yes, but I have found none that support my language and I prefer getting directions not in English :-). Magic Earth comes with TTS for my language and also worked on my previous Android phone, which was close to stock Android (LineageOS without Google Play).
I use Organic Map on my work iPhone and it works perfectly as a GPS. It’s even allowing me to use Apple Car Play.
I went back to map quest, love it. Simple. Clean.
I have OsmAnd+ (which is what people have recommend to me), but I have the same question. I try it out every time I need to find something, but it hasn’t given me a good result so far
Offline would be a plus too
This was the last one for most of us. And for good reason. Google maps is really good at what it does. Hang in there though. If you’ve made it this far, freedom is within your grasp
