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Malaysia wants to move away from Waze. Will drivers make the switch? (www.channelnewsasia.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Co-maps/organic maps is the current Foss options.Give those a try. Also contribute your local knowledge to open street Maps if possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Have to second Organic Maps, especially if you want a single app for driving and hiking/running/biking/etc. The trade-off is no live traffic or adaptive routing, which you can certainly learn to live without. (Don’t forget that alternative routing using paper maps used to be a common practice.)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    No traffic analysis is fine, but I've been caught out by road work a few times and that does rather suck.

    There are some alternatives which also provide traffic data, though they each feel varying levels of clunky to use. There's Magic Earth (requires a cheap subscription for some functionality), also HERE WeGo ("free", also seems to offer its services to car manufacturers and some other things).
    The one I've used the most is one by my country's touring/driver's association, which in turn seems to rely on Mapbox. It's also kind of mid, but at least it's local.

    I am using all of these through Android Auto, which they each support, even if they don't support it very well.

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