Google is such a great source of inspiration (^_^)
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2024
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Absolutely love organic maps for cycling! It recommendeds sensible routes that are much safer. The only feature I miss (and I know organic maps strives for 100% feature completeness even offline so this would be unlikely to be added) is navigation using public transit in the UK. The national rail app is painfully slow and isn't easy to just search a location and just go, but it does work. Every bus company has their own app too... I haven't found a good replacement yet unfortunately :/
I have the opposite experience for city biking at least. OSM / organic takes me on main roads, while gmaps is smart enough to keep me on bike-friendly roads.
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Magic Earth (while not FOSS, it's privacy oriented though) can do this.
There's also Transportr, but AFAIK it's been unmaintained for quite a while now, so it may not work / stop working soon.
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Does the app have:
- Location sharing
- Live traffic updates
- Public transportation
Missing one of these is a deal breaker.
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I tried Organic Map. As someone who doesn't drive, my only qualm with the app is that it won't tell you what public transport you should take to get from point A to point B.
For now, I will stick with Google Maps.
I recently found the "transit" app. It has a great UI and great live updates. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thetransitapp.droid
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Rudo's tool sounds cool.
I've done those conversions by hand before, just deleting irrelevant Google junk out of the KML file to import it to OsmAnd~ because I planned my route on the desktop Google Earth app (3D is cool) and exported it to KML. After some edits it usually will import to OsmAnd on the phone
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Can you also import saved maps from Avenza Maps for Android? I have it as my other maps app