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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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 23 hours ago

I also switched to the Transit app for public transit after google maps stopped showing the option to start navigation and only allows for searching for routes now. Not sure why it stopped working. Maybe because I use GrapheneOS, but it worked on Graphene before with no issue, so could be a combination of policy changes and using a non Google OS or something. It works fine with driving and walking still.

For driving, I still can't find a comparable app that has both real-time traffic which is essential in my city to avoid constantly fluctuating bottlenecks due to construction, traffic pattern changes, and rush hour traffic. I found one at one point, but it didn't read the names of streets, just said "turn right" instead of "turn right on first avenue". This is confusing when streets are close together or it's treating alleyways as streets, etc. CoMaps is the best I've found if it had traffic routing.