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Most effective map navigation app? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using Waze for the past year but I just looked it up and realised that it's also owned by Google. I tried using OsmAnd yesterday twice, but the first time I went through a tunnel it just stopped giving directions when I came out of the tunnel (a bug I assume). The second time on the way home, it took me down the wrong exit and I almost ended up at the airport!

Anybody have a better experience with other apps? I've just installed Organic Maps so I'll see how that goes this week.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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Then one could also argue and say that grapheneos is not good because it is based on Aosp, which is developed by Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

I mean, I don't disagree entirely. Once a proper foss smartphone is available and viable for daily use, I fully intend to use it because graphene does have a lot of google dependencies that I consider shortcomings. But if the goal is degoogling, navigation apps from non-google stores is not a particularly high bar to clear at the moment.