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[–] fake_meows@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If it meets your requirements, try Vela Maps which is a degoogled Google Maps.

" A degoogled maps & navigation client for Android - what NewPipe is to YouTube, for Google Maps. Open vector tiles for the basemap, the device itself scraping Google's public web endpoints (per-user, no backend) for the things only Google does well: POI quality, routing, and traffic-aware ETAs. Built to run on GrapheneOS and other no-GMS ROMs. "

I think it's a fairly new product and seems to be rapidly improving performance with quite a few updates lately. (I have discovered some glitches but they seem to be addressed as soon as the app updates the next time.)

It might meet your requirements because it's not Google Maps.

It might not meet your requirements if you want a truly no-Google product, because it uses a few Google things anonymously in the back end...

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago

Super cool. had no idea that existed

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

This needs to be made a library so that someone can write an OsmAnd plugin for the POI search.