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Are you sick of Google Maps, but are still worried about getting from A to B? 🏃 🚲 🚗

Checkout these great open source alternatives!

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A list of our recommendations for alternatives to Google Maps including OpenStreetMap, OsmAnd, Organic Map, and Locus Map.

Looking to drop Google? Here are the best Google Maps alternatives for finding your way.

With a number of community driven, open source mapping projects picking a navigation app without ads or tracking has never been easier.
Tuta
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Artur Neumann
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the map is open-source, but be aware that #Locus as app is not.
IMO this is not necessarily a bad thing, software developers have to earn money.
Another great (not #FOSS) app for navigation during sport activities (#running, #cycling, #trekking, etc.) is IMO #komoot : komoot.com
It also uses #openstreetmap data

Edit: OsmAnd is opensource, thx for telling me

#foss #cycling #openstreetmap #running #Komoot #locus #trekking
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Frieder Schrempf
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Magic Earth is quite good for navigation. Based on OSM data and free, but not FOSS.
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gi124
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gi124
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will one of those allow me to constantly and reliably share location with my family
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Zaphod42
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I am using Organic Map, before that OsmAnd (Organic Map needs fewer ressources on my old device).

Google Maps wants me to do things, to consume. I want to get where I want and get things done. Thanks, I am grown up, no neede for a nanny ..

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nictakiego
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nictakiego
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Oh yes! You mentioned organic maps. Thank you ❤ More people should be aware of such app.
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Andrew
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I wish there was a decent Google maps replacement. Not just for navigation--that's fairly simple--but rather for local SEARCH. How else are you supposed to search for stuff nearby? Yelp is the only alternative I even know of and it's terrible. Nextdoor is arguably a contender but it's even worse. Nothing community driven whatsoever that I'm aware of...

#Google #degoogle #maps

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John Q
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Amongst other things, I think the magic touch with a nav app is when end-users can submit events on the fly (closures, crashes, etc). The fact you can see other Waze users live on the map is a testament to the community-driven nature of the data.
Do any of the open options dabble in this currently?
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Piousunyn
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I have a Waze around google, though it may use Google?
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Jens Michael B.-Hansen
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as a long distance cyclist I always use Osmand+ which I can download sections for to use offline going abroad and delete them after I leave the section again. Very convenient.
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Maël
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Hi ! For French people : cartes.app.

Full Web open source alternative. ~ half of France for transit cover. 90 % at the end of the year.


Cartes

Des cartes libres et gratuites sur le Web, alternatives aux maps Google et Apple, pour trouver un commerce, un lieu, visiter une ville, calculer un trajet à pieds, en vélo, en transport en commun, en train.
cartes.app
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Andy Wootton
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I'm just back from a walk, recorded by OsmAnd, to measure the distance and maybe share my route later. Then I turned it OFF, because I can. That's the important part to me. I want to help other people, not obscenely wealthy corporations that have lied to me before, when they said services would be free forever.
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TRIPLE ///
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hi tuta, I am planning to use your service but it won't allow me to pay for a subscription. Tried both my bank and Revolut's card, multiple devices, waited for a day, still nothing. Only error I get is a generic payment was unsuccessful message. Can you help me with this? Thanks
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andr01d
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the idea behind these apps is great. I use Organic Maps sometimes, but all the OSM databases are missing local info. You cant find anything over 99% of the time via address. Waze is my curremt choice until something is done to provide addresses and more businesses to the database.
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Tuta
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@andr01d Keep in mind that Waze was purchased by Google in 2013.
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DrYak
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and on Linux OSes (such as #SailfishOS or UbuntuTouch), there's PureMaps
#sailfishos
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Mr. Teatime
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/e/OS comes oreinstalled with "Magic Earth", which is also not bad.
Not sure if it's entirely open Source, though. And I think it costs money if you get it via Google Play Store.
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