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Project for people leaving Google Maps. (feddit.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Mastodon Toot.

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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (6 children)
  • It has the map corpus from OpenStreetMap, so one of the best in the world
  • It works offline - just download the desired maps onto the device
  • That makes it really, really fast. Google Maps is slower
  • You can also use it in areas with bad reception. I'm using it for hiking in the woods where there is no cell phone connection available
  • I really like the UI - they are f.e. better at displaying house numbers and street names than Google.
  • No ads
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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On the hiking note, it also shows a lot of trails. I used it to navigate to a trail head and was pleasantly surprised to see a rough outline of the trails I would be using plus some others I didn't know were there.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It even has water markers for longer trails where youd be hiking for weeks or months at a time. Sometimes those spots are dry, but you can clearly see water channels in the ground where it would be flowing.

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