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[–] observes_depths@aussie.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

From my own recent tests, Maps.me is good for finding businesses, citymapper is good for public transport, and TomTom is good for driving directions with live trafic.

OSMAnd is amazing, customisable, can do everything (I use it for hiking, saving locations, and topography) but for things you'd use google for (finding businesses, driving, street view) google does those things much better.

And PSA for those who don't know, Waze is owned by google and maintained in Israel.

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Gross thank you for that PSA, will swap.

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[–] RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 weeks ago

Waze is my Achilles heel when it comes to degoogling. I use OSMAnd~ frequently and love it (even considering getting a lifetime license), but with the multitude of options it has it's missing a dedicated way for community driven police reports when driving. Absolutely essential feature in daily commutes for me. And not to mention I have to often find a location in GVmaps and manually input it to OSMAnd to be able to navigate to it since it's missing so many.

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