lots of people will comment about organic maps
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It’s actually really good. I just wish the maps were as up to date as the big three (Waze, Apple, google). It would be awesome if each city, state was required to publish map data to openstreetmaps. I know my city has everything in arcgis and you can browse it. But they should definitely publish to openstreetmaps.
I have found OSM data (and therefore Organic Maps) more up to date than the others, at least for roads. In the past six months for me that was three different cities, and two different countries. Small sample size, but including my city there were several places that google had not updated for years.
As for your city to OSM integration: OSM does not take data dumps. But your city could encourage people to update the data in OSM or better still leverage OSM as a data truth and curate it, and load ArcGIS datastores from it.
You can help using Street Complete which is a very easy to use android app that fills in the details of whereever you are at: Is this road paved? What are the business hours here? Is there street lighting? etc.
street complete is awesome
The things is you can't just "publish to OpenStreetMap". OSM is an integrated dataset, and he integration happens by actual humans. Bulk operations are possible, but hard to get right and usually not actually massive. So you need a decent volunteer base to get the data good enough. Some apps do merge OSM data with official data before showing it to the user, for example to offer full building or address coverage.
Saying Waze and Google in the same phrase is, unfortunately, redundant
Even though they're governed by the same entity, they function quite differently from each other.
+1 for organic maps
Like the kind you fold up?
Into a swan.
Nope, it's also a community run app that works on OpenStreetMap data
OsmAnd+ the best
That's what I use. Some may get too overwhelmed with the feature set it has, so Organic Maps would be a more basic nav app.
But... OsmAnd+ is far more advanced than Google Maps, and can be customized every which way.
Another bonus: You'll never see ads masquerading as POIs on a map.😀
Any way to get live traffic? I'm not finding anything very useful online
For live traffic, try Magic Earth. I haven't used it in a while, but it's another alternative to consider. :)
Thanks. It's been about a year since I've tried this one. Just grabbed it again. Trying to find alternatives for when I 'de-google' my life. Hopefully sooner than later
Not for Route calculation. But you can use the googlemaps interface as an overlay.
https://hoerli.net/osmand-google-traffic-anzeigen/ It's German, but the pictures should be enough.
I use Magic Earth, it has the best UI IMO.
Google maps actually works ok with Play services Internet access blocked. And it has local downloadable maps now. I prefer Organic Maps on principle and use it when I can, but sometimes resort to Google maps. I've never liked Osmand since I've found it confusing.
Organic Maps serves me well
YMMV honestly. It depends on where you live. If your city is mapped out well, OsmAnd+ will work for you. For me, unfortunately Google Maps still works far far better than anything else I've tried :(
I have been using MapFactor Navigator for decades already. It uses OSM for maps (or Tomtom maps, if you want to go commercial), and you can configure every aspect of the navigation; you can completely geek out on it, if you want.
Not affiliated at all, just a happy user.
Best one I've found with real time traffic is HereWeGo and it's just... OK. If anyone knows of a better one for a privacy respecting traffic maps please let me know.
It used to be better. They rewrote it a while back and made it not as good.
This one... Doesn't seem so bad, privacy wise. It can be also used offline, afaik.
It's been a while since I've had this one. Going to try it out again. Thanks
MagicEarth is decent, I've not had any luck with osmand or organic maps.
Waze for me unfortunately owned by Google tho. Doesn't require play services