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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• jjpamsterdam@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unfortunately this seems all to plausible. Despite Firefox and ad blocking in general, there’s very few services that rival Google’s Android and (in my opinion) none that can honestly rival Maps at present.

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I rarely use Google Maps (you really should check out OpenStreetMap and OsmAnd), but I use Android and YouTube a lot.

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    • jjpamsterdam@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Can you tell/show me how/where I can use OSM as a replacement for Google Maps. I’ve given OsmAnd a try and found it lacking.

      I ran a few tests such as searching for my local library. Unfortunately I had to use the exact wording (“Stadtbibliothek”) rather than simpler, more common wording (“Bibliothek”). The Google map found it immediately. Similarly I searched for a local Café, which I easily found in Google Maps (despite not capitalising anything). Meanwhile the business is not present in OSM, despite being the most popular Café in my town.

      Additionally navigation doesn’t work for me for regions I haven’t downloaded. How would I go about getting it to work for navigation to places further afield that I haven’t downloaded?

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      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Anscheinend funktioniert “Bücherei” als Suchbegriff, “Bibliothek” nur, wenn das im Namen vorkommt.

        OSM-Daten sind genau so gut, wie Freiwillige sie gemacht haben. :/ In meiner Gegend sehr vollständig, aber das liegt auch daran, dass ich daran mitgewirkt habe.

        OsmAnd ist grundsätzlich eine Offline-Kartenanwendung, d.h. du musst die Karten von den Gebieten, die dich interessieren, herunterladen. Dafür, dass sie “on-demand” heruntergeladen werden wie bei Google Maps, haben sie wohl nicht die Ressourcen. Ist aber auch besser für die Privatsphäre.

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      • variouslegumes@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        OsmAnd is great. You should try Organic Maps. I’ve had better luck with the search.

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      • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I had similar results to you. In my case the deal breaker was navigation, because I need to be able to make changes to the route on the fly which these apps don’t allow. In fact, you need to tap like ten times through menus to finish a trip and search for something else.

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