• communism@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Comaps works well for me. If it’s not comprehensive enough, contribute! OSM is crowd-sourced.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    The foldable paper ones that you picked up at the gas station or tourist kiosk were the best and they were immune to name change updates.

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    No. Most aren’t able to do basic navigation to addresses of people. I’d like it to be different but for me CoMaps and the other ones aren’t useful (yet)

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      50 minutes ago

      Probably because the area youre in is not mapped out, however the routing engine is pretty much on par with the ones by Garmin and others

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    I’ve tried several over the past few weeks. There aren’t any that can even do the basic job of mapping from point a to b consistently for some reason. Mapquest came the closest, but 3 issues.

    1. It won’t stay in landscape mode unless I put my tablet on Dex
    2. It often can’t find addresses based on business names, and sometimes not at all.
    3. It doesn’t have wide enough categories to find a good amount of places if you don’t know the address or name of what you’re wanting

    I like the interface, it looks nice, but it’s missing key map things, that should be the basics over things like a unicorn icon, which is cute, but useless.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    CoMaps is good if you already know where to go.
    I use it in conjunction with GMapsWV: look for a place, copy the coordinates with the share button and paste them into CoMaps.
    Never missed an address and I use it quite a bit.

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      Thanks for the recommendation for GMapsWV. I didn’t know about that, and have always felt very uncomfortable when using Google Maps to find restaurants and such that aren’t always listed in OSM.

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    I can never find anything on OSM based maps by themselves. My current method is to search via the Apple Maps web beta then use geoshare to copy the location to CoMaps for turn-by-turn. I have magic earth installed as a fallback if I have problems with comaps.

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    4 hours ago

    good or better then google maps, no, they’re are a trillion $ company with major resoirces

    I use OSMAnd+ its a little bit shit but ot gets me by. I also edit a little bit of Open Street maps in my area to help

    • jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 hours ago

      This right here; if I can ever manage to get my transmission fixed, I can start recording my DoorDash trips, again. OSM is painfully lacking info in my city.

  • Sims@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    I’m not sure how it stacks up with the rest, but for web: https://mapcarta.com/

    “Explore the globe with Mapcarta—the open map that unites the world through the collective knowledge of OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects.”

  • Zweiblum@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    I tried most of the ones mentioned here but they rarely include any ratings or additional features. For me what comes close enough to a Google/apple maps alternative is mapy.com . Its not Foss and some features are behind a subscription. But its European and 19€ a year is OK with me. Some features that might be interesting:

    • Sport/Activity tracking
    • Traffic / speed camera info
    • Way finding using public transport
    • Integrated navigation voices
    • Live location sharing