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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

OrganicMaps is amazing. Strong recommend to everyone. I only recently found out about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same, I have recently installed LineageOS on my phone and was looking for various replacements for Goggle apps. What I really like about OrganicMaps is that it downloads the maps locally, so you can view it even if you aren't connected to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

google maps can do that too though

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

The feature looks made ugly on purpose though (compared to organic maps where you can just download the whole country or select more precisely what you want)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Any details on why it's amazing? What does it do or doesn't?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It has the map corpus from OpenStreetMap, so one of the best in the world
It works offline - just download the desired maps onto the device
That makes it really, really fast. Google Maps is slower
You can also use it in areas with bad reception. I'm using it for hiking in the woods where there is no cell phone connection available
I really like the UI - they are f.e. better at displaying house numbers and street names than Google.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

On the hiking note, it also shows a lot of trails. I used it to navigate to a trail head and was pleasantly surprised to see a rough outline of the trails I would be using plus some others I didn't know were there.