First of all, thanks all for your tips on how to unravel my life from GMail. I’ve slowly started to migrate over to Proton mail (slightly controversial but I feel the full suite will be easier to sell my wife on, who loves her big tech corpos)

Now to the topic at hand, what are some good alternatives to Google maps for driving directions?

      • cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        8 months ago

        I’ve been using it for years, but I agree that it’s almost too configurable. Start small, and don’t ezplore the menus too deep :).

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      This is the best alternative I found so far. I love how much you can configure it to your own needs. There is a bit of a learning curve, but once you get over that, it’s so much better than g maps.

  • sunth1ef@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    8 months ago

    Osmand+ is definitely the right answer for customizability and power; however CoMaps has made the GUI decisions for you in a nice way and is ready to go out of the box.

    Osmand+ added secure location sharing to their roadmap for 2026 which is something my family really misses - so I will he using and supporting when that drops.

    Laslty, open street maps have one fatal choke point - search is pretty terrible. Even inputting a correctly formatted address often yields no results or too many confusing results. Searching by place name is hit or miss, mostly miss. The only workaround is to verify address and get lat long coordinates for that address- I typically do this from a third party website.

  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    8 months ago

    CoMaps.

    Congrats on the big steps!

    I still have to change email on a few banks, Steam, and some others. Proton just sends your shit to Google. I was so pissed. I’m already about to switch to something else and abandon it.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 months ago

    Like others here, I use open street maps data, but I’ve found comaps to be the best frontend to it. I can approach the navigation functionality of google maps with it.

  • Trent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I use OsmAnd+, works fine for me.

    Disclaimer: I don’t often go to places I’m unfamiliar with so I don’t need directions very often, but when I do it seems to get the job done. YMMV.

  • toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    8 months ago

    I personally found Osmand to be horrible UI wise, it was impossible to find anything with the search bar. CoMaps on the other hand, is wonderful, uses a lot less battery charge and the search works great too. Only downside is that I had to install a text-to-speech software seperatly as my phone does not have Google TTS.

  • hesh@quokk.auEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Ive been using Here Wego, with SherpaTTS for voice instructions

  • Valarie@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    8 months ago

    I use organic maps because I like it but it does have some issues so I would look into it and probably go with a service that pulls from the same source(osm/open street maps)

  • Glifted@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 months ago

    I personally use OSMand+ but its not as nice as Google maps. I’ve had some luck using Magic Earth in the past. Something about it pissed me off and I uninstalled it, but I can’t remember what. It might be worth trying

  • mr_might44@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 months ago

    I know OpenStreetMap exists as an alternative, but I don’t know if it has decent driving directions. You could check it out and see if it has what you want/need.