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For using OSM on Android (edit: and iOS):

• I use OsmAnd, which is free on F-Droid. It's very feature-rich, and I can customize it pretty much exactly how I like. There's a good tutorial for beginners here.
• However, some people prefer the simplicity of the app CoMaps, which is available for Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux (Flathub). It's a fork of Organic Maps that arose over disagreements with Organic's governance (see: open letter).
• There are also specialty apps like Alpi Maps for more specialized uses of OSM (in Alpi Maps' case, hiking).

For contributing to OSM on Android:

• I use Vespucci for more complex edits on Android, so things like adding features. (The rough iOS equivalent is Go Map!!.)
• I use StreetComplete for a more trimmed-down, gamified experience. It isn't a power user experience like Vespucci, but it's often really useful if you're just on the go and want to make small but meaningful contributions.

The easiest way I've found to contribute local information is the iD editor on desktop; it's the one that pops up if you click 'Edit' on OpenStreetMap.org. It strikes a good balance between user-friendliness and power user stuff. For full-on power users, JOSM is a good option. And the easiest way to contribute in a limited way is StreetComplete, which will ask you questions about existing features (like "does this traffic signal have a walk button for pedestrians?")

The OpenStreetMap Wiki is a great general resource for using and contributing.

Use CoMaps. It's a privacy-first app that pulls their map data from OpenStreetMaps. If something is inaccurate on the map, you can edit it on OSM and it'll populate to most map services. I've made changes and seen it pop up on Google Maps too.

I downloaded CoMaps from F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/), just to avoid the Google Play Store. Slowly de-Googling my life...

I don't know if there is an iOS version. Apple is the OG evil company, long before Google got rid of their "Don't Be Evil" motto, so I avoid their products. Now I'm trying to get off Android stuff too, but there aren't many alternatives right now.

EDIT: Someone else linked a website for CoMaps and it does have an iOS app. Also an Apple and Linux desktop program. No Windows though.

FYI, here are the PrivacyGuides recommendations:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/maps/

CoMaps is a great app for iOS and Android. Cleaner interface than OsmAnd. FOSS and uses open street maps.

But but we at OSM have interminable discussion about how to map several flavors of lgbtq stuff. Surely that must count for something?! Also here is an OSM project to show these places https://pkoby.github.io/LGBTQmap/#13/51.4979/-0.0887 And here's a map with just the rainbow pedestrian crossing https://mapcomplete.org/rainbow_crossings

I was about to pivot to CoMaps but then saw this mapquest thing taking off.....

One way or another, Google is out. GrapheneOS is in this week.

No that makes sense, I hear many Americans refuse to use GPS, because no one can tell them where to drive, they drive where they want and which way they want. Not according to what some sissy computer tells them.
FREEDOM! 😋

Could someone please add tag douchebag_name ?

TIA!

Yes it is, sorry my mistake.

OSM is CoMaps' data source.

Haven't tried it, but it's based on OpenStreetMap, so I guess it also calls it Lake Ontario.
Why is comaps better?

In my experience OsmAnd is way better than Comaps.

In OsmAnd I can type in a business name or an address and not only will it bring up the correct address but it will allow me to navigate. I can do neither in Comaps. Also OsmAnd has CarPlay/Android Auto support with the paid version.

I haven't tried comaps, so maybe it has similar features, but the OsmAnd profiles and plugins are great. Driving, hiking, biking, walking, basically any form of transportation can be used and with plugins and overlays show info pertinent to each method while excluding extraneous info.

And if you get it from fdroid or compile it yourself(?) it's the pro version with more features for free.

Needs Android Auto support

yes, good app

Worst product name ever.

Also, crappy app too. I appreciate that they are trying, but it has been crap for years.

Tried it again a few months ago. The spoken navigation wounded like it just huffed a can of butane. Real low, slow and fucked up sounding.

you can help add that info and help your local community :)

Google Maps is notoriously bad with cycle routes. It has sent us over sand paths where you can't cycle at all, when better routes are available. In cities, OSM also gives better routes.

My experience as well. I use gmaps only for incity navigation if I need it. It will happily reroute you to some bumfuck nowhere to save a millilitre of gasoline.

People think I'm crazy for insisting that google maps sucks if you actually understand how to use a map and traffic reports, but it's true.

Now that you mention it, I have family in the Bay Area and had an incident with them too!

I was visiting and had a small econobox rental (I forget the exact model). I said hey, we should take this thing up to someplace with a lot of giant redwoods. I've never seen huge trees! And so I looked around on the map and saw a Big Basin Redwoods State Park that sounded promising.

The first leg turned out just great. But after touring the park, it was still early afternoon and I thought maybe we can go to Santa Cruz and have dinner before swinging back? The GPS at that point said I basically needed to backtrack down the same road for a ways, but that sounded boring. I was a tourist. I wanted to see new sights! So I had it choose an alternate route down China Grade Road. I still remember that name. Omg. It was a logging road with aggressive dips and switchbacks with huge drops if you missed one.

As a bit of a epilogue, a couple of years later, I was reading "The Never Game" by Jeffery Deaver, and at one point, the protagonist is hunting for someone at Big Basin. After not finding them, he decides to check along a nearby logging road. Hey I've been there man! Don't do it!!

And the new mnemonic is HOME-O