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What's your go-to OSS navigation app? I've been trying the three in the title. CoMaps is a fork of Organic but Osm seems to be its own thing. Honestly haven't seen a reason yet to prefer one over another besides Osm's pretty bad name.

For public transit (trains buses etc) I use Transit, it's not OSS but the company aligns strongly with me and I like that their employees get four-day workweeks: https://transitapp.com/vision However if there's a OSS alternative I'm not aware of I'm always willing to try it.

For finding businesses I would not expect much.. there seems to be no good answer that isn't Yelp or Google Maps, and of course that kinda goes by the nature of crowd sourced reviews and information. I have GMaps WV but it's kind clunky and I just ended up falling back to Maps unfortunately.

EDIT: Forgot to mention biking. I live in a not-so-bike friendly suburb and have actually found that Google gives me WORSE bike routes than OsmAnd, for what it's worth. The OSM route tends to be more roundabout but safer. My guess is you get more urbanist minded people contributing to these, so that's nice to see.

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[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OsmAND. It's the only FOSS map client I know of that support private sync of tracks, waypoints, settings etc. through SyncThing. It also works as a device loss backup.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not completely free though since lots of features are locked behind a paywall

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, FOSS apps are completely free. You can download the entire OsmAnd code from https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd and compile it yourself if you are so inclined. Some developers choose to restrict features for FOSS apps distributed on Google Play though.

If you want "OsmAnd+" and "Maps+" features, download it from a FOSS source, like F-Droid and get:

Maps+

• Unlimited map downloads;

• Topo data (Contour lines and Terrain);

• Nautical depths;

• Offline Wikipedia;

• Offline Wikivoyage - Travel guides.

OsmAnd Pro

• Cross-platform;

• Hourly map updates;

• Weather plugin;

• Elevation widget;

• Customise route line;

• Online Elevation profile.

This has nothing to do with an OsmAnd subscription though.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Wooooow. Glad someone let me know before I paid $40 for it