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I like organic maps but if you are not in a pretty densely populated area that people update regularly, you’re straight up just not going to have some things on it for years. Even in major cities you need to get used to knowing the exact address to input, as well as understand that it is not giving you an optimal route that takes into account things like traffic or road construction or other variables. It basically just gives you what it thinks is the shortest distance from point A to point B, which is more often than not not the best route.
I like it, I use it for probably 30-40% of my navigation. But you have been warned. It’s akin to pre-loaded car navigation from 15 years ago.
The solution, of course, is to become an OSM contributor.
The dataset ("what you have on it") and the quality of navigation are two very different things. For the first you can help directly to address it, for example with the app StreetComplete.
I am in a more remote area. Coverage is good in towns but not on residential streets.
I use StreetComplete as I walk around new areas and try to fill things in. It gamifies it a little bit with "quests" but you can do your own thing.
Its great seeing the fast feedback loop into Organic Maps at the next update.
So street complete fill outs OM?