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OsmAnd maps is great
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Osmand can't use google data because its proprietary.
What I do is I just give myself extra time to get to my destination.
With osm I take the shortcuts that are not on google.
I was hoping it could be scraped somehow, but yeah, that's very non-trivial for something like maps.