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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The thing is, OSM is not comparable with GoogleMaps.

I mean... Yes that's literally what I said. I don't know if there is any of these apps that really provide all that Google Maps provides. But I'd be interested if they do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They will never do, because they are not trying to. AFAIK no one is trying to build FOSS reviews of restaurants/stores, no one is building street view and no one is saving where you live to make the one click from work to home route planning. For me, those are not functions that I need (or want). I need a map that works offline, does route planning (offline) and allows me to display multiple GPX files at the same time.

Does OSMAnd have all that? It does, so for me it's an alternative. What use case do you have?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Osmand does have a plugin for open reviews or something and I think I saw there were plans to use another source too. I guess, on top of photos from Wikimedia and mapillary it is trying to become a bit like Google Maps in a way...

There is also a plugin for mapillary street view that doesn't work too bad.

Only missing a Web app for desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Directions using public transit for instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Public transit navigation is possible in Osmand but there will not times just the routes and only if the data is present in Openstreetmap and that pretty rare, really depends where you live.