Organic Maps is the best open source Maps App I've ever tried

tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Android@lemdro.id – 335 points –

It's essentially an open source fork of maps.me by the original creators.

I've been using OSMAnd for years, but it always felt laggy and not that reliable. Searching was slow and so on. Many street or things it didn't instantly find.

In the Graphene App Store I jnust discovered Accrescent (another app store thing but only with like 10 apps - they're all gold though, god damn)

An in there I found organic maps. And this shit is google maps level responsive. If you're on the lookout for a google maps replacement - consider trying this.

Byeeee

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Shame it doesn't do street numbers (possibly an OSM limitation?). Other than that, solid.

Many street numbers do not exist in OpenStreetMap because no one created them! So if you know about some area with this issue, help edit the map!

StreetComplete tasks got my neighborhood to be the best-mapped little village I've ever seen! 😎

Since I'm walking around for exercise anyway, I've got most of the addresses, and now I'm working on the fire hydrants.

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Depends what you mean with "doesn't do". I haven't used Organic maps that much yet, but OSMand can handle street numbers. So Organic maps should too.

However it handles them very poorly, you have to type the address in a certain way or it won't recognise the number in it. Sharing from another app works pretty well most of the time though.

You need to go around with street complete and add numbers. It takes time but it is fun and good exercise.

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