I’m looking to never have to use Google Maps. Is OsmAnd+ the best?

  • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Of course you have to download the map ypu wanna use, duh. Plus I live in a third world country and it has everything so far including adresses and it works even for coordinates

      • Virtual Insanity @lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Well how else do you think navigation works?

        Of course it’s going to need data.

        Google gets away with it by streaming the data.

        Smaller 3rd party mapping companies don’t have the infrastructure to do that so you download map packages.

        That’s how it worked before navigation devices had always on internet connections.

        220mb for a city it really quite efficient, I wouldn’t be complaining.

      • justaregularthrowaway@lemmynsfw.com
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        11 months ago

        220mb for “just a city”? Must be quite a large city. Brussels and surrounding province is just 70mb. You can also download entire countries BTW, which is convenient if you won’t have a data connection available. If you don’t want ofine data, but still would like to use OpenStreetMap, try Mapy.cz (like it for hitting and cycling) or Magic Earth (has some.live traffic data). (IIRC both allow downloading all the data, but don’t force it)