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for navigation without boogle services, comaps from fDroid or magic earth from Aurora work fine
They may mean that open street maps doesnt have adequate data for their area, in which case those options are unlikely to help
That is correct, a lot of basic, popular places that have been in my area for decades were not listed. And I was unable to simply navigate to an address that doesn't isn't explicitly added, which seems like a huge oversight.
You can easily add them with StreetComplete ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete
we're the data of osm. It can be adequate tomorrow, if you care enough.
Yes, you can, but if every time you have to go somewhere new its not there its not really serving very well as your GPS, especially if you really need your GPS on a regular basis. At a minumuythat means you need two GPS apps
I really enjoy adding stuff with street complete, but if someone needs to be able to get places and osm doesnt have the data they need, its totally reasonable for them to use a different gps- open street maps can't get them where they need to go, so theyre gonna need a different one
For me the issue is traffic data. I need to know if something crazy happened on my usual route.
Yeah, I have ADHD and accurate time estimations for how long it'll get places inclidimg traffic are REALLY important to me because my brain can't process how long it takes to do things and time manage the way other people can
Sometimes you have needs that aren't totally met by the open source or free license option, and thats okay :)
Hopefully over time it can get better and better, which is why I still like contributing with street complete. Only time will tell if osm will end up working out adequately for me, but if it doesn't work for your needs, that's alright!