I replaced my Garmin sat nav with an old android phone using Magic Earth and it's great for the most part. However, even after updating the maps last week, on our recent holiday around Scotland it wanted to send us up through a 'new' housing estate to get to the other side. Unfortunately, the main road was now closed off and then it was trying to get me to drive through someones living room to get back to the main road. The map kind of showed new housing estate roads but not to the scale of this development.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Also, the export favourites function is pretty useless. It exports a sqlite db but there's no visible way to import this into another copy of Magic Earth.
It seems Like it doesnt work without gapps. I am in LineageOS without gapps, so Organic Maps wins.
EDIT: It works without Gapps. Tested it again today and it worked.
It works perfectly fine without any GApps, not sure where you're getting this info. I've used it for months with no issues.
Im using Fairphone 4 5G. Do you really use it without any gapps? Not even Micro/Nano G? I installed pure Lineage20. In Google Maps and most of the other Navigation apps GPS Locationing doesnt work. Organic Maps just works. At least for me. Most of the time something doesnt work, it is because of gapps, and it is on the play store, so i would think it is because of that.
But i will try it again and reply if it is now better or not.
Yes, I used it as my primary mapping tool on GrapheneOS, the GPS locating worked fine, and I didn't have any Google software installed.
You Were right. Used it for my way back home Form office and it worked this time. Strange. I swear, that when i tested it yesterday, it didnt got my Location! Today it took less than 10sec.
Works without Gapps.
When you use Google's precise location tracking, your location is found almost instantly, even if you're indoors.
If you're not using it, you need to be outdoors for it to triangulate your position. It takes about 3 or 4 seconds to calculate, but once it's found it works perfectly fine.
Maybe that was your issue?
No web interface?
well ok
Crowd sourced is the worst. When ease was new and was crowd sourced it would always have me make a right onto a side street, take an immediate left and then another right to continue on the same street I was already on.
I really hope that isn’t what they mean my crowd sourced.
I've seen that happen in both Google Maps and OpenStreetMaps...
But the nice thing about something crowdsourced like OpenStreetMaps, is that I can just hop on their editor and fix the street that is broken.
Would not addition people that continue to do the same thing override your fix?
When a piece of road is properly connected, there's very little reason for others to go and disconnect it again.
There's also an approval system, so changes made has to be reviewed by others, and you have comments to explain why and what you did.
Disconnected roads like the one OP mentions happens by accident, not by intention.
All the fixes I have put into OpenStreetMaps has stayed there.
Thanks for the detailed explanation as I was really curious.
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Not available (currently) in Canada.
Sad, I was excited to try it out
VPN?
Works just fine for me?