Alternatives to Google Maps for navigation
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First of all, thanks all for your tips on how to unravel my life from GMail. I've slowly started to migrate over to Proton mail (slightly controversial but I feel the full suite will be easier to sell my wife on, who loves her big tech corpos)
Now to the topic at hand, what are some good alternatives to Google maps for driving directions?
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First of all, thanks all for your tips on how to unravel my life from GMail. I've slowly started to migrate over to Proton mail (slightly controversial but I feel the full suite will be easier to sell my wife on, who loves her big tech corpos)
Now to the topic at hand, what are some good alternatives to Google maps for driving directions?
Osmand+ is definitely the right answer for customizability and power; however CoMaps has made the GUI decisions for you in a nice way and is ready to go out of the box.
Osmand+ added secure location sharing to their roadmap for 2026 which is something my family really misses - so I will he using and supporting when that drops.
Laslty, open street maps have one fatal choke point - search is pretty terrible. Even inputting a correctly formatted address often yields no results or too many confusing results. Searching by place name is hit or miss, mostly miss. The only workaround is to verify address and get lat long coordinates for that address- I typically do this from a third party website.
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Osmand+ is definitely the right answer for customizability and power; however CoMaps has made the GUI decisions for you in a nice way and is ready to go out of the box.
Osmand+ added secure location sharing to their roadmap for 2026 which is something my family really misses - so I will he using and supporting when that drops.
Laslty, open street maps have one fatal choke point - search is pretty terrible. Even inputting a correctly formatted address often yields no results or too many confusing results. Searching by place name is hit or miss, mostly miss. The only workaround is to verify address and get lat long coordinates for that address- I typically do this from a third party website.
@sunth1ef
For Location Sharing you can try Zood -
I had great success with Zood on stock android but no luck on Graphene using non - google location services. I've reached out to the Dev for integration with OSM and/or beacondb support with no response.
If anyone has Zood running on Graphene without switching to google location services let me know I'd love to use it
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I had great success with Zood on stock android but no luck on Graphene using non - google location services. I've reached out to the Dev for integration with OSM and/or beacondb support with no response.
If anyone has Zood running on Graphene without switching to google location services let me know I'd love to use it
@sunth1ef
I once ran Zood under iodeOS with the BEACONDB location service. It worked wonderfully. -
@sunth1ef
I once ran Zood under iodeOS with the BEACONDB location service. It worked wonderfully.Can you share how you did this? Did you have to seat beacondb as your location services in iode or in the app itself?
My experience is that Zood cnnot find me unless I'm using default (google) location services, and I haven't been able to find a workaround for my set up
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Can you share how you did this? Did you have to seat beacondb as your location services in iode or in the app itself?
My experience is that Zood cnnot find me unless I'm using default (google) location services, and I haven't been able to find a workaround for my set up
@sunth1ef
BeaconDB can be set there as a location service via microG. -
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