I don’t use any of those

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I think at this point in my life I've added enough to my home town that I'm comfortable using it as my main map program, I also admit to having here maps as a backup, but I haven't used it in a minute

I love Comaps. I have it installed on my Android phone. I contribute to OpenStreet maps when I can.

are the two related?

Two: having the enter the address in a non-standard way (for the US) City, Street, Building Number, makes finding things even harder.

THAT'S why i always struggled to look up buildings on Comaps! Hell, I wondered why the sesrch was so hard!

My main issue is the lack of traffic data. I wish I didn't live in a car-centric society, but i do, so I need to know if the route I'm taking is going to be shit.

I read that the one of the differences between Organic Maps and CoMaps is that the server side code for CoMaps is FOSS, while some of the server side code for Organic Maps is not. I hope I understood that correctly. I have Organic Maps installed because it was in the GrapheneOS app store.

If CoMaps has open server-side code, could I create my own map tiles with the best bike routes in my area and self-host them for myself and my friends? I find that google, bing, OpenStreetMap, etc all suck at recognizing good bike routes in my area and hand-curated routes are much better. I'd prefer to hand-curate the best routes color coded based on perceived safety and whether they are daytime only routes or acceptable for nighttime travel. Is something like this doable with CoMaps?

Holy wah... #2 is a deal breaker for sure. So sad.

How does one define and name an area?

They use OSM as source for maps, yes.

Not sure how much they add, aside from offline functionality.

Other apps add extra data sources.

Yep it uses a selection of the most important data from OSM because the entire thing would be too huge to keep on your phone. You download the map in sections so region/city based but you can also just get an entire country which will be a few GB.

It can import/export bookmarks and record and import gpx tracks. Has TTS support and you can even edit things (like opening hours and stuff) if you have an OSM account.

It very much has routing, route saving, turn by turn instructions, voice instructions and more. Idk what you mean.

What a piece of crap, this thing didn't warn me about the bridge being closed and jammed up because of a car fire. Stupid paper...

Dude someone mentioned this the other day and I pretty mu h went all in on Garmin GPS since then.

I want to use comaps and organic maps and magic earth and all that but they just don't work well for me but the Garmin is on point.

Plus they say they don't sell your data. But even if that's a lie I bought it used off Craigslist so its "Johns" data now.

In my town restaurants come and go so fast the yellow pages are basically always obsolete.

Yeah that also is awful. Can’t learn anything about the place without getting accidentally redirected to the App Store.

Do you work for apple? You’re all over this thread shilling.

whereas apple is doing non-targeted ads.

Copium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotargeting

Ooops, thanks for pointing it out. I have corrected the post

OSMAnd+ is a good app. Using openmaps. You often Ned the address of where you are going since place searches of businesses may no come up. But the navigation has been good.

I have observed no issues. Every once in a while, when choosing large targets like an airport, it's hard to chose the right "destination" from the many available as the labels don't always have all details.

Other than that, no issues whatsoever.

PS: to put it in context, I am a casual user who basically never remembers street names or directions so I use it often but it's not like I am an Uber driver