TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?message-squaremessage-square272fedilinkarrow-up1369arrow-down110
arrow-up1359arrow-down1message-squareWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square272fedilink
minus-squareTehBamski@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-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-up32·7 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-up2·7 days agoPractically all of the free map services use OSM.
minus-squareconfuser@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoIs open street map data pretty accurate? I don’t expect google mas level of accuracy but I think its important that I can rely on the maps when I don’t know anything about where I’m at
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.
Is open street map data pretty accurate? I don’t expect google mas level of accuracy but I think its important that I can rely on the maps when I don’t know anything about where I’m at