Please don’t. Just use an openstreetmaps application instead. CoMaps is pretty solid. Jumping from one private/closed source company to another is not really the best route towards privacy.
Search is fundamentally broken in all of the major OSM based apps. They are incapable of finding addresses, which is the whole point of the apps. I recently started using Vela Maps. It does use Google Maps under the hood, but it tries to minimize data sent to Google. Before that, I used Magic Earth, which was great before it was enshittified.
Agree 100% and I adore comaps and frantically map in my area but… we need to be real that OSM is still functionally beta for many locations. 1000% use pure OSM if you can and contribute to make the map functional, but as far as setting expectitions know that even if the map isn’t ready where you live today, it may not be that way for long.
And yes, I am jealous of people who can use comaps seamlessly. I often have to use google to find locations then drop them into comaps since our road network is reliable but POIs are not.
For hiking, cycling etc I love CoMaps and similar apps. But for driving the most important thing is missing and basically impossible to get from free sources: traffic and roadblocks. Those are the main reason for me to use a navigation app in the first place; most routes I drive a easy enough, but knowing the route doesn’t equal knowing the current circumstances along the route.
I’m not sure everywhere, but I can say that any place that has a population of about 5000+ in my area is fairly well mapped, enough to mean that I haven’t used google maps in about 2 years. The less populous areas aren’t great, but I have at the very least never had issues with highways so it usually gets you close enough that you can get by.
My town of ≈25k has seriously outdated info, mostly like two years old. I’m going through and updating info but it feels like an uphill battle at times.
Please don’t. Just use an openstreetmaps application instead. CoMaps is pretty solid. Jumping from one private/closed source company to another is not really the best route towards privacy.
Search is fundamentally broken in all of the major OSM based apps. They are incapable of finding addresses, which is the whole point of the apps. I recently started using Vela Maps. It does use Google Maps under the hood, but it tries to minimize data sent to Google. Before that, I used Magic Earth, which was great before it was enshittified.
Agree 100% and I adore comaps and frantically map in my area but… we need to be real that OSM is still functionally beta for many locations. 1000% use pure OSM if you can and contribute to make the map functional, but as far as setting expectitions know that even if the map isn’t ready where you live today, it may not be that way for long.
And yes, I am jealous of people who can use comaps seamlessly. I often have to use google to find locations then drop them into comaps since our road network is reliable but POIs are not.
For hiking, cycling etc I love CoMaps and similar apps. But for driving the most important thing is missing and basically impossible to get from free sources: traffic and roadblocks. Those are the main reason for me to use a navigation app in the first place; most routes I drive a easy enough, but knowing the route doesn’t equal knowing the current circumstances along the route.
I’m not sure everywhere, but I can say that any place that has a population of about 5000+ in my area is fairly well mapped, enough to mean that I haven’t used google maps in about 2 years. The less populous areas aren’t great, but I have at the very least never had issues with highways so it usually gets you close enough that you can get by.
My town of ≈25k has seriously outdated info, mostly like two years old. I’m going through and updating info but it feels like an uphill battle at times.
Good point