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I personally find all the open source Open Street Maps based apps to be extremely lacking. 90% of the places I'd try to find aren't there and for some. of them navigation was off too. I use Here We Go.
Good: No missing locations. Uses Trip Advisor for reviews. Database & navigation is good. Less features than Google but low bs. Privacy policy states that no personal user data is collected without consent, and is pretty short & sweet. Telemetry is opt in, though you can't get traffic data without it. There are buttons to delete history or delete all data collection taken. Based in the Netherlands. Owned mostly by German car manufacturers.
Bad: No search along route or Voice Assistant in Android Auto. Closed source. 2 trackers (Facebook login, Google Crashlytics, both optional though). Rarely any pictures. Requires you to download from the Play Store to use in Android Auto (no Aurora).
This should be more of a shared responsibility, it's not an app's fault but the simple fact that OSM lacks a lot of information in many areas. That's why it's so important to contribute to OSM even a little bit, just mapping your own street block and nothing else is already a huge improvement.
whenever i have an issue with navigating to something, i contribute to it to make sure that navigation error would never happen again. fully recommend the process, its very satisfying to do, makes you feel like a conquistador mapping the hidden cenote in which resides mcdonalds
yeah I do the same lol
That's the easiest and most rewarding way to contribute without making it a full hobby by going to places specifically to map them, it feels great when I lookup the same thing after some time and it just works now
Did you contribute to OSM to make the maps better for you and everyone else?
My area had nothing a couple of years ago. But I started contributing every week or so and it's filled out nicely, and some other people started doing the same. It's more accurate than Google Maps in my area now.
I thought MS owned that or bought it. 🤔
Open street maps is closed source?
I think they're talking about "Here We Go"