It’s essentially an open source fork of maps.me by the original creators.

I’ve been using OSMAnd for years, but it always felt laggy and not that reliable. Searching was slow and so on. Many street or things it didn’t instantly find.

In the Graphene App Store I jnust discovered Accrescent (another app store thing but only with like 10 apps - they’re all gold though, god damn)

An in there I found organic maps. And this shit is google maps level responsive. If you’re on the lookout for a google maps replacement - consider trying this.

Byeeee

    • smokinliver@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, you can see that organic maps is sadly not there yet in terms of driving-interface, but hopefully its getting there soon.

      Afaik the app is far younger than magic earth and for what it is its super good. I’m so stoked to see how organic maps is gonna develop in the coming years

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I second magic earth for driving. The only reason I haven’t entirely removed Google maps from my phone yet is because magic earth doesn’t have data on business hours. This is the last killer feature I’m waiting for.

      In the meantime I’m routing for any open source map that can do live traffic and business info.

      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I use gmap wv for that. It’s just the web view of google maps but works better than Firefox and easier to pull up when osm fails. Navigation obviously doesn’t work but should satisfy your use case.

      • timestatic@feddit.orgEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Honestly, I uses organic maps and if its not mapped I just go on the business website. Fuck google, thats why!

    • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Interesting. Do you happen to know where it gets its traffic data from? I haven’t yet personally found anything nearly as useful as Waze.

      • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        They collect location of their users but anonimize every data on device, they can’t track anyone personally. They also sell their SDK to businesses and collect data from there as well.

          • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I use it frequently, and it’s mostly right. It can tell traffic jams really precisely (it says something like “you will have to stop in 300m” and the traffic jam is actually starts at ∓10m from that point)

            But it tries to navigate me through fully closed roads. I don’t know why is that. The kind of closed road it misses is regularly closed, but at irregular intervals (like most weekends on the summer, but not always, if there is some happening it is also closed on weekdays, etc). These kind of irregular things shouldn’t be mapped in OpenStreetMap (As documented in the wiki) I have a feeling that they think that it should be mapped, but I won’t map it.

            I guess it also depends on where you live, so just try it first.

        • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          3 months ago

          From reading the Magic Earth FAQ, I believe the user data actually isn’t used for traffic at all (at least the manually reported events certainly aren’t).

          Edit: never mind I missed a later part in the FAQ:

          Do you share data with third parties?

          We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it’s not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Proprietary software that collects my data, no thanks. It was fine when there weren’t any alternatives but that isn’t the case anymore.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Does it have temporary speed traps and trajectory based traps?

      I often drive in the middle of the night and speedlimits make me fall asleep.

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If we don’t need traffic Information Organic maps is fine too. It now even says where you have to turn which is a major improvement.

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It now even says where you have to turn

        Only if the map has road lanes defined. That means: everybody join OpenStreetMap and map your local area! :)