• waywardninja@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I agree that the idea is great but I have yet to find one single address that I need to get to using the osmand app, which kind of makes it useless. It seems incredibly difficult to use.

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      1 year ago

      It’s because OsmAnd has some serious issues searching for certain addresses. It’s not an OpenStreetMaps problem, but an issue with the app. Organic Maps is better. Magic Earth is even better. Note: only talking about address searching. OsmAnd still has a ton of other useful features.

      If I need to use OsmAnd, sometimes I’ll copy the plus code from Google Maps, as that translates to GPS coordinates.

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        1 year ago

        Sure it could be the app not going to deny that. It does feel like the app has so much to offer but it’s difficult to use. I have heard Magic Earth is good but since this is the privacy community I didn’t mention it or compare it to osm since it’s not FOSS.

        Copying codes from one source into osmand still breaks your privacy though because your using Google so might as well continue using Google. I’m not super paranoid or anything but for privacy sake I’d say unless I can contain my use case to the app (and osm) it doesn’t work out.

        I hope the entire movement grows 😁