On the hiking note, it also shows a lot of trails. I used it to navigate to a trail head and was pleasantly surprised to see a rough outline of the trails I would be using plus some others I didn’t know were there.
It even has water markers for longer trails where youd be hiking for weeks or months at a time. Sometimes those spots are dry, but you can clearly see water channels in the ground where it would be flowing.
Google’s maps are decent and can also be downloaded to be offline…? But yeah, it seems like it’s a nice alternative, especially if you want to be free from Google’s grips.
Well i didn’t know it existed so I would have had a hard time using it in the past, I just commented from my perspective that’s not an advantage over what I already use
Any details on why it’s amazing? What does it do or doesn’t?
On the hiking note, it also shows a lot of trails. I used it to navigate to a trail head and was pleasantly surprised to see a rough outline of the trails I would be using plus some others I didn’t know were there.
It even has water markers for longer trails where youd be hiking for weeks or months at a time. Sometimes those spots are dry, but you can clearly see water channels in the ground where it would be flowing.
Google’s maps are decent and can also be downloaded to be offline…? But yeah, it seems like it’s a nice alternative, especially if you want to be free from Google’s grips.
As a cyclist, organic maps never told me to go on the freaking autoroute, but google maps did…
Maybe it’s iOS specific but I had to go to a region and download the map to be able to search it, which is not great
It’s the same on Android.
It shows me where the speed cameras are :)
Waze does that too + reported police, hazards
I see no benefit to using Waze. Openstreepmap works better.
Well i didn’t know it existed so I would have had a hard time using it in the past, I just commented from my perspective that’s not an advantage over what I already use
Waze isn’t FOSS.