Downloaded it. It’s crazy how its not really that far behind gmaps.
I tried it last night and couldn’t get it to find specific addresses, particularly in rural areas. Any tips you’ve found?
It’s a lot better in cities obviously
I live in a city and it didn’t map out every address here, like my friend’s address for example. But I feel its fine because that way everyone’s privacy is maintained and if I want to share my location to anyone I can use those unique links associated to my place. Besides that it mapped almost all of the public places and even has navigation built into it(which I thought wouldn’t be available).
These are my initial impressions. Let’s see how it fares up as I keep using it.
I started using Organic Maps recently, it’s incredible that so much of Google Maps can be done offline, and the maps are sooooo pretty. It was certainly something I didn’t expect to find and was a pleasant surprise.
I recently switched from Google Maps to Apple Maps in an effort to de-google, but this seems like an even better alternative.
Does it work with CarPlay?
EDIT: It looks like it does.
I got mad at my iPhone yesterday because I asked Siri to navigate home using Apple Maps, and it said that I hadn’t shared my location with Siri so that wasn’t possible. No… I shared my location with Apple Maps, open the app and have it navigate home. If you’re not going to allow me to use native iPhone features with Apple Maps, I’ll just use something else.
as far as I’m concerned, apple maps is a lesser evil but you’re still sending your data to one of the largest corporations in the world who are frantically trying to sell you something. only a matter of time you’ll hear news of your data went somewhere you didn’t expect.
This looks like it has come a long way, but since this is a privacy community I have to ask: Realistically, whether you are on iOS or Android, isn’t it likely Google or Apple are still tracking your location much of the time directly from the OS?
Pretty cool project I’d not heard of. Those offline gps nav permissions seem pretty excessive for a project claiming privacy focus.
