Timeline for Valid Android alternative to Google Maps?
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 18:14 | history | edited | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2023 at 10:14 | answer | added | Vladyslav Rehan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 9, 2022 at 11:00 | history | edited | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2021 at 19:04 | history | edited | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Dec 8, 2021 at 14:28 | history | bounty ended | dr_ | ||
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| Dec 8, 2021 at 14:27 | history | edited | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2021 at 8:11 | comment | added | Izzy | Same here (regarding time) – but then, chat must not necessarily be "real time", and delays are acceptable. Just ping me, I'll try responding without too much delay. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 1:52 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness♦ | @Izzy Interesting! Let's talk more about that in chat. I don't have enough time right now to chat (and may not have much free time for the next several days), but hopefully I'll have a little time soon. Nose to the grindstone, as they say... | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | Izzy | We're working hard on getting good stuff in (I even run around encouraging developers). If you add my repo to your F-Droid client, you get about 700 additional apps which are otherwise only available at Play (or not even there; some are exclusive with my repo). That might already fill a gap or two :) | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 13:38 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness♦ | @Izzy Thanks. Great to know it's on F-Droid too. I thought I had all the F-Droid apps memorized by now! I think more than half my apps are from F-Droid, and I'm hoping some of the ones that aren't can be added in the future. I'll admit that I do also have 1 or 2 apps that are available on F-Droid, but I installed them from the Evil Empire because the Play Store version gets updated on a more timely basis. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 8:07 | comment | added | Izzy | @RockPaperLz-MaskitorCasket I'm using OsmAnd – and I'm using F-Droid. So while you found the app I mentioned, I'd recommend a "market" that takes your privacy serious not just in words, but in fact: f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps it is :D | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftRecs/status/1467690543203471364 | ||
| Dec 6, 2021 at 2:35 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness♦ | @Izzy You mentioned "OrganicMaps". Is this the app to which you refer?: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.organicmaps | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 2:29 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness♦ | My favourite is the food truck that was parked - years ago - for a few hours in a vacant lot. It's been listed on Google Maps as a permanent restaurant at that location for years. I wonder how many people try to go there and just find a vacant lot that is now surrounded by an ugly fence. | |
| S Dec 5, 2021 at 11:23 | history | bounty started | dr_ | ||
| S Dec 5, 2021 at 11:23 | history | notice added | dr_ | Reward existing answer | |
| Dec 5, 2021 at 11:21 | comment | added | dr_ | @RockPaperLz-MaskitorCasket Just this morning I have deleted a new place called "asdfasdfd6493" near my house from Google Maps... | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 12:47 | answer | added | Izzy | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 11:10 | comment | added | dr_ | Thanks @Izzy, very interesting. This should be an answer too! | |
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| Dec 3, 2021 at 13:46 | comment | added | Izzy | Some more alternatives are in my corresponding app list: Navigation. I personally use OsmAnd (free at F-Droid, paid at Play), and have heard good things about OrganicMaps (less complex but very reliable). In the past I've used Locus Maps, which is also great (but bound to your Google account which is why I replaced it, no longer having a Google account). Some resources for Locus & OsmAnd I've collected in my Locus Maps & OsmAnd Resources. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 11:59 | answer | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 11:40 | comment | added | dr_ | Thanks, I'm trying MAPS.ME right now. You should add it as an answer. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 11:27 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness♦ | I have also noticed everything you mentioned. From Google Maps being a cesspool, to ETAs being off so much that they are meaningless. Your posting is timely because a good friend of mine called just the other day and mentioned these issues as well. Waze is now owned by Google, and it has reportedly gone downhill since the acquisition. I used MAPS.ME years ago (before they switched to that name), and had good success, but I haven't tried it recently. I don't recall if it had traffic information. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 11:24 | history | edited | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2021 at 10:32 | history | asked | dr_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |