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Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

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What's your go-to OSS navigation app? I've been trying the three in the title. CoMaps is a fork of Organic but Osm seems to be its own thing. Honestly haven't seen a reason yet to prefer one over another besides Osm's pretty bad name.

For transit I use Transit, it's not OSS but the company aligns strongly with me and I like that their employees get four-day workweeks: https://transitapp.com/vision However if there's a OSS alternative I'm not aware of I'm always willing to try it.

For finding businesses I would not expect much.. there seems to be no good answer that isn't Yelp or Google Maps, and of course that kinda goes by the nature of crowd sourced reviews and information. I have GMaps WV but it's kind clunky and I just ended up falling back to Maps unfortunately.

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

I recently moved to CoMaps after having a positive experience with Organic Maps, specifically re: offline navigation capability.

Although the search in CoMaps could be better, it's still far superior than what I experienced with OsmAnd. In my opinion, CoMaps UX is vastly better than OsmAnd.