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Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
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What is your main objective for using OSM?
Is it for navigation? Bike routes? Route planning? There are so many services/apps/websites that use OSM data that you can really get as specific as your use-case needs!
If you just need a basic navigation solution for your smartphone, Organic Maps (uses OSM data) or (OSMand+) on Android are good options.
Nice, Organic Map is awesome. Do you also know a webapp similar to Google Maps?
My go-to website for route creation (bike, car, or otherwise) is https://brouter.de/brouter-web/ It's got a lot of options, but it's far more powerful than Gmaps.
For which purpose? As feature rich as gmaps? Nope.