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It is pretty solid. It lacks some advanced features such as routing around preset areas but that's a minor complaint.
Aldo it is only as good as OSM. Get to work on the map.
Also the search doesn't work, so there is that...
Also using it in android auto is a pain and every action takes between 10x and 100x longer than on the phone.
But yeah it is pretty good and I try to contribute to it when I can. I don't know how to contribute to bad instruction translations though. It just says "verlaat" on an exit in dutch which grammatically makes no sense.
You should open an issue
I noticed that it only downloads local maps initially. You can download more maps and expand the area that it searches in. Maybe this is why you are having issues with searches? I assume that if you search for a place in a map that it hasn't downloaded it may have trouble finding it.
Nope. I type in SPAR and it gives me a bunch of random results 150km away.
I type in Grocery and it gives me SPAR 1.5km away.
I need to type in the exact address for it to find a place, with no errors. Otherwise I can type a category name and hope that it finds it and that I guessed right, that also works.
If you type in a partial name (I.e. not the full legal name including company abbreviations) of a store it will break itself and show you completely random unrelated results from a random place in the country.
I took a bunch of screenshots a while back as proof.
It is fundamentally broken, and it is widely reported IIRC, but I don't know if there are any issues open about it.
You should open an issue with detailed examples including location so they can fix it