What was the benefit of Organic Maps over OsmAnd or other options? I never understood why Organic Maps was getting so much traction.
For me its the android auto compatibility. OSM won't (and probably shouldnt) jump through the google hoops to do so. It's at least nice to have a more open option for an otherwise very proprietary ecosystem. Even though organic maps has room to improve
Organic maps has traffic, osmand doesn't. I feel osmand is better in pretty much every other situation but organic maps has traffic.
@pineapple @lewdian69 does it have traffic? Who provides that data?
Thanks for asking i've been wondering myself actually. I looked it up and organic maps doesn't actually do traffic, although magic earth does (another not foss but apparenty privacy respecting map app that uses osm) It says it's just crowdsourced from the general public who uses magic earth (in an anonimous way, I guess there are enough magic earth uses for it to work since Some people say it works really well. (although others say it doesn't you should probably try it for yourself.)
On another note that I also found from my research just then, traffic knowing apps don't actually improve travel times but they do make previously congested places more congested. sources:
Edit: Magic earth is not foss so there is no way to varify that the app is actually respecting your privacy like it says it is, i'm sorry for any confusion.
@pineapple I use Waze and the traffic info are very very usefull, especially when there are closed road or accidents. I know, it's Waze and I'd love to be able to use OsmAnd (which I use for other purposes), but the traffic info that has Waze is the best so far (at least where I live)
aaaand uninstalled
Installed, not seeing and noticeable difference to start but I'm glad someone took this up
Where does this fall on the spectrum of Differences in Opinion - We're Evil Now?
just migrated to Organic Maps from maps.me and would prefer to not have to export and import and adapt to new UI again
Should have named it libre map.
A little variety shouldn't hurt. There are plenty of Libre X or Yet Another X projects already.
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