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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do u live in some place less humans live? Like a village or something? OSM is mapped by volunteers, which means that less OSM enthusiasts around you = worse mapping. Perhaps you could start a little bit of mapping?

As for the voice navigation, well Organic doesn't have its own voice. It uses ur phone's native text to speech engine. If u have completely degoogled ur phone, then u probably would be using some other tts engine (which most probably sucks ass).

As for the searches, yeah, they need a better local search engine.

[โ€“] LordKitsuna 1 points 6 months ago

I don't just mean the voice, even just HOW it gives directions. Google maps gives you multiple warnings for a turn , one way before, one approaching, one right at. It also will often tell you which lane to take a turn in if multiple exist (use the second from the left lane to turn left) if your next turn is right after with little warning.

It's been a hot minute so i can try again to see if it's changed but directions were terrible with little extra warning and no taking the next direction into account.

The map was also just... Messy, little outlines for buildings everywhere a bunch of random green squares all over the map that I couldn't figure out how to turn off and wasn't even sure what they were meant to represent other than they seemed to roughly correspond with grassy or treed areas but for using it as a navigation app that is extremely annoying because it just makes the whole map of cluttered mess and makes it difficult to really tell what I'm looking at when I'm trying to drive and need to see my next Direction quickly and easily at a glance