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

  • fraksken@infosec.pubEnglish
    378·
    5 months ago

    Idk … In their description on f-droid they crossed out “no pesticides” and wrote “purely organic” … It implies they are using organic pesticides. Not sure if that’s something for me tbh.

    Edit: screenshot added

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    5 months ago

    It is pretty solid. It lacks some advanced features such as routing around preset areas but that’s a minor complaint.

    Aldo it is only as good as OSM. Get to work on the map.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      Also the search doesn’t work, so there is that…

      Also using it in android auto is a pain and every action takes between 10x and 100x longer than on the phone.

      But yeah it is pretty good and I try to contribute to it when I can. I don’t know how to contribute to bad instruction translations though. It just says “verlaat” on an exit in dutch which grammatically makes no sense.

  • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    Ok downloaded. Seems very nice!

    Still working out how to get directions but all things in good time.

  • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    Astronomical Clock in Prague is like a fucking wormhole for humans. Last time I was there it felt there was like a thousand people in one small place.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      my wife forced me to get up really early to look at it without coffee so I wasn’t quite as whelmed as I should’ve been. Prague is lovely though.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Does it know how to navigate NYC public transit? That’s a big use case for me. I don’t need driving directions. I need to know which subway is closest.

  • hummingbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Organic Maps is my goto solution for car navigation because it is very quick, responsive and does not require an high end phone. It just works. However for anything more advanced than that (e.g. live location sharing or recording, planning a hiking trip, navigating mountain bike trails, contributing to OpenStreemMap), OSMAnd is still without contender.

    • SeekPie@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      For me, it’s even better than GMaps, because it lets me navigate on bike paths, which GMaps couldn’t.

      • hummingbird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Here a a few things that I miss from OsmAnd:

        • adding more than a handful of routing points is tedious
        • you cannot plan partially or fully independent from existing roads
        • no way to save and restore a planned trip
        • no overlays for hill shading or incline visualization. Very useful for assessing the effort of a route.
        • no public transport support. Very useful for planning a trip with transitions.
        • no rain radar
        • satellite view
  • Cynicus Rex@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Thanks for the share, had no idea. It felt so nice that I already added two contributions to OpenStreetMap.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    Wow that genuinely looks unbelievable!

    It’s like an old mall or whatever map except without you are here and movable!

  • istanbullu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    5 months ago

    It’s also improving really fast. Organic Maps has a great community of developers.

  • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
    71·
    5 months ago

    Does it do navigation with routes based on current traffic conditions? Because that’s table stakes to me.

        • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          It’ll at least give you good directions, car/bicycle/walking-optimized based on what you select.

          It’ll get there, just needs time.

          • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            5 months ago

            I mean great if it gets there but in the meantime I’m not going to recommend it to anyone as a google maps replacement. It does look like a good maps.me replacement for hiking though!

            • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              I wouldn’t have said it was a replacement just yet to non -open source centric folks, personally.

              More attention isn’t a bad thing though, sometimes devs need more input to decide what to focus on next.

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    It is nice app but the problem is it doesn’t show Czech hiking and cycling routes by default. I didn’t figured out how to enable them.