TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?message-squaremessage-square169fedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down16
arrow-up1238arrow-down1message-squareWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square169fedilink
minus-squareCubitOom@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·7 days agoOrganic maps is great bit I wish it had real time traffic data. For that reason I normally use magic earth instead.
minus-squareWugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoThank you very much for pointing out that app exists
minus-squareHotsauceHurricane@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·7 days agoOrganic maps is so good
minus-squareTehBamski@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·7 days agoCan you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?
minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·7 days agoIt’s a beautiful, FOSS, offline/local Google maps-like app for Android that uses Open Street Map data. There are plenty of other offline/local map apps, some paid, some free, but they are nowhere near as polished. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/
minus-squaredaw@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoPractically all of the free map services use OSM.
minus-squaresnake@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agothere’s been many a time i’ve been out in the middle of nowhere with a friend or family member and google maps stops working on their phone, and i get to pull out OM and save the day :^)
Organic Maps
Organic maps is great bit I wish it had real time traffic data. For that reason I normally use magic earth instead.
Thank you very much for pointing out that app exists
Organic maps is so good
Can you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?
It’s a beautiful, FOSS, offline/local Google maps-like app for Android that uses Open Street Map data.
There are plenty of other offline/local map apps, some paid, some free, but they are nowhere near as polished.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/
Practically all of the free map services use OSM.
there’s been many a time i’ve been out in the middle of nowhere with a friend or family member and google maps stops working on their phone, and i get to pull out OM and save the day :^)