I’m looking to never have to use Google Maps. Is OsmAnd+ the best?
lots of people will comment about organic maps
It’s actually really good. I just wish the maps were as up to date as the big three (Waze, Apple, google). It would be awesome if each city, state was required to publish map data to openstreetmaps. I know my city has everything in arcgis and you can browse it. But they should definitely publish to openstreetmaps.
I have found OSM data (and therefore Organic Maps) more up to date than the others, at least for roads. In the past six months for me that was three different cities, and two different countries. Small sample size, but including my city there were several places that google had not updated for years.
As for your city to OSM integration: OSM does not take data dumps. But your city could encourage people to update the data in OSM or better still leverage OSM as a data truth and curate it, and load ArcGIS datastores from it.
You can help using Street Complete which is a very easy to use android app that fills in the details of whereever you are at: Is this road paved? What are the business hours here? Is there street lighting? etc.
OsmAnd+ the best
That’s what I use. Some may get too overwhelmed with the feature set it has, so Organic Maps would be a more basic nav app.
But… OsmAnd+ is far more advanced than Google Maps, and can be customized every which way.
Another bonus: You’ll never see ads masquerading as POIs on a map.😀
For live traffic, try Magic Earth. I haven’t used it in a while, but it’s another alternative to consider. :)
Not for Route calculation. But you can use the googlemaps interface as an overlay.
https://hoerli.net/osmand-google-traffic-anzeigen/ It’s German, but the pictures should be enough.
Best one I’ve found with real time traffic is HereWeGo and it’s just… OK. If anyone knows of a better one for a privacy respecting traffic maps please let me know.
I use Magic Earth, it has the best UI IMO.
Waze for me unfortunately owned by Google tho. Doesn’t require play services
