I've used organic maps with some success
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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Thank you. Just moved to a new city, so I'm going to use the map a lot, hope it has good support for public transit.
Check put OneBusAway for transit. Its FOSS thats supported by city goverments.
Its unfortunately only usable in about a dozen cities, but if youre in one its solid. Available cities:
- Rogue Valley, Oregon (RVTD)
- San Diego, California (SDMTS)
- Seattle/Tacoma/Puget Sound, Washington (Sound Transit, KCM, Pierce Transit, Intercity Transit, and more)
- Spokane, Washington
- Tampa Bay, Florida (HART)
- Washington, D.C. (WMATA)
- York Region Transit, Canada (YRT / Viva)
For German users, I would recommend Öffi. It's open source and has public transport information for basically every city in Germany. Hasn't let me down so far.
Thank you that's was I was looking for!
That's very specifically unfortunate as Organic Maps has not public transport support yet
osmand has great map support. real-time nav for transit isn't an osm strength - i haven't seen an osm app that integrates live traffic or transit
Organic Maps + StreetComplete to get that quick fix
I use osmand+ quite a lot and like it very much
I use OSMAnd~ for navigation, and the "expert" version of StreetComplete for surveying.
The official OSM wiki has a nice chart with android apps: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android#Navigation (There are also non navigation apps somewhere else on that site)
As someone else already said Magic Earth is great as a direct google maps alternative, I use it in combination with organic maps which I find better when on foot or looking around on the map.
I like OSMAnd for it's ability to work for almost any purpose you need it to serve. Besides that I enjoy Magic Earth (on Play store) as a Google Map alternative as it's UI is the cleanest.
Been using Magic Earth since its included within /e/OS on my phone. It's been fine for the most part. Sometimes it doesn't recognize the actual address but will get me at least on the street and from there can navigate myself
Vespucci is great for editing.
It's pretty advanced though so maybe not for a casual user.
Been using Magic Earth since its included within /e/OS on my phone. It's been fine for the most part. Sometimes it doesn't recognize the actual address but will get me at least on the street and from there can navigate myself
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