I’m sure this has been asked a dozen times but couldn’t find a straight answer on search so would appreciate your take on it. Thanks
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I have been using Osmand~ for years now and I am very happy!
offline Maps & navigation
Route recording/export/import
in-app plugin for contributing to openstreetmap
need to pre-download and store maps
no live traffic info
route calculation sometimes slow or sub-optimal
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Thanks does this also use GPS?
Yes, of course
Ok got thanks again
Magic Earth is a good choice, free and OpenStreetMap solution (but not open-source).
OsmAnd~ work, but not easy to use and slow.
I tried to install this Osmand on my S5, i noticed that the battery drains very quickly unlike ViewRanger which i have use for almost 8 yrs. I did not have a problem with the battery drain.
Hi Reno a. Thanks. The only issue I have with closed source is that one can assume that as an additional source of income they will collect data and sell. I know one bonus it doesn’t belong to Google but difficult to guess what is going on behind the scene…
It uses whatever location provider is available.
Your android OS can have several location providers registered. The most common one is the GPS location provider. But there is also one that uses cellular data, wifi and or Bluetooth data to determine location. The ladder ones are from Google AFAIK.
Ofc you can use microG for a Foss implementation.
Good info thanks
Hi David
I use openmultimaps, it uses gps and can use a variety of diffent map layers.
Rgds
Dave
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Dear Moderators,
The post Best google map alternative on F-Droid seems to be the right place to ask my question: Reaching destination with an Open Source alternative to GPS+Google Maps
I often use Google Maps to reach a destination.
I have used, and/or still use, a few of GPS F-Droid Apps, particularly, GPS Logger by BasicAirData (pls note: currently still not found in F-Droid Web-browser repository search), GPSLogger and GPS Cockpit by Woheller69, but they fail on occasions.
So, I presently am sometimes compelled to using Latitude Longitude from Financept, Google PlayStore.
I require an Open Source app similar to the Google Maps which could assist me reaching a predetermined destination, as an alternative to GPS+Google Maps. I have observed, as stated above, a thread appropriate to post this question. Osmand~ appears to have anti-features. Other candidates such as Magic Earth and openmultimaps are also mentioned.
I myself had a particular thread on GPS. There, freecycler, in a particular post had informed me about the app AAT he had experience with, which I found to be AAT Another Activity Tracker.
I prefer learning ‘the Feel’ about an app as much as I can, before installing, and save myself of the effort to uninstall a hastily installed app. I also believe that no installed app can be fully removed, i.e., cleanly removed. It may change and/or damage a system. It may be a misplaced fear, but having come from Doze 95, I have had numerous occasions for such fears coming true.
However, the said thread is now closed for posters. If considered appropriate, could my current post please be migrated to the aforementioned thread, and this present thread be removed?
Of course, I have no issues if this current thread is allowed to continue as an independent thread.
Organic Maps? Comaps?
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Organic Maps is the one! Minus the North East and North Midwest USA, I have DRIVEN all over the USA and that thing has gotten me through it all.
There is a learning curve (and i wish the way to make edits or updates to location visited in real time was a liter more stream line than having to create an online account, some times while you are in the middle of nowhere, and then go through quite a few prompts to finally make a comment about a location) to using it; and to the having to zoom into the correct scale in order to see the correct nomenclature for a street or highway, but after you get through that, it is pretty handy.
ESPECIALLY when you have go to the remote places i have and you lose service provider connection. Having offline maps is like a Thomas Guide in my pocket (that needs batteries of course). There is a downside though and its that if you do decide to download the WHOLE planet (which you never know if you might need someday ) it takes up a big chunk of memory. I think between the USA and the 2 neighboring nations which I have downloaded I am almost at 70Gb’s.
I wish there was some way for me to download OM’s, and its subsequent updates, onto the same 256+Gb USB drive (that i save a lot of my Newpipe videos and other phone media) I save all my other phone stuff onto. So that way I am not missing a little more than half of my Android storage.
Is there anything foss for traffic jam circumvention/road repair circumvention in the spirit of googles stuff? I need a framework for it.
Thank you for your inputs and thoughts.
The best way would have been to install, check, then uninstall, if found undesirable.
But there seems to be an issue with Install/Uninstall, which might not be clean and might leave some artifacts behind to interfere with the system ⋯ the anxieties of the old Doze experiences resurface.
Which is why personal experience was solicited and is welcome rather than one-word, two-word inputs.
BTW, both Organic Maps and CoMaps have anti-features.
Tethered Network Services
This Anti-Feature is applied to apps that depend entirely on a service which is impossible (or not easy) to replace. Replacement requires changes to the app or service. This Anti-Feature would not be applied if there is a simple configuration option that allows pointing the app to a running instance of an alternative, publicly available, self-hostable server solution.
This is beyond my domain, so better is safe to wait and listen to advice. Particularly, this part is difficult:
⋯ running instance of an alternative, publicly available, self-hostable server solution. ⋯
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CoMaps.
I wouldn’t like support Organic Maps.
Somebody needs to process the map for you, there’s gonna be always an antifeature…you want the map data or not?
It’s a fork, of course you support the upstream app too…
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