• waywardninja
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    I agree that the idea is great but I have yet to find one single address that I need to get to using the osmand app, which kind of makes it useless. It seems incredibly difficult to use.

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      It’s because OsmAnd has some serious issues searching for certain addresses. It’s not an OpenStreetMaps problem, but an issue with the app. Organic Maps is better. Magic Earth is even better. Note: only talking about address searching. OsmAnd still has a ton of other useful features.

      If I need to use OsmAnd, sometimes I’ll copy the plus code from Google Maps, as that translates to GPS coordinates.

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        Sure it could be the app not going to deny that. It does feel like the app has so much to offer but it’s difficult to use. I have heard Magic Earth is good but since this is the privacy community I didn’t mention it or compare it to osm since it’s not FOSS.

        Copying codes from one source into osmand still breaks your privacy though because your using Google so might as well continue using Google. I’m not super paranoid or anything but for privacy sake I’d say unless I can contain my use case to the app (and osm) it doesn’t work out.

        I hope the entire movement grows 😁

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    Is there a way to make it pull some data on road closures from google maps? There’s a lot of construction on my way to work right now so I rely on google maps to pick the fastest routes, which it does well. OSM just doesn’t have the data to do that.

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    No, OsmAnd is pretty bad. Data presentation makes it feel like something out of 1960-s.

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      Sounds like you just dont know how to use a map. Google maps is horrible to anyone who wants to actually use it like a map.

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      As somebody who also uses paper maps for hiking still: I find google maps got a lot worse over the years, and is pretty much unusable for just looking at maps, while osmand provides easily readable maps.

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      It is clunky and takes tinkering to get it just right for each use case, which can be a pain especially for new users. But once it’s set up it works very well and most importantly works everywhere. While traveling abroad without cell data OsmAnd saved our asses more than once when Google Maps failed!

      It’s like Call of Duty vs Arma. Call of Duty is slick and is very good at a very specific experience. Arma isn’t nearly as smooth or pretty, and it has a learning curve but once you get past that it can do a wide variety of amazing things the other simply cannot match. But admittedly it’s not for everyone