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  • OsmAnd map: loading time, routes preview.

Osmand is quite good. My experience is that you have to understand the logic of the search function. But granted, it can be much improved. The navigation for pedestrians or cars is sufficient for my needs too. However, the route calculation is sometimes ridiculously long. For example, if you want to go from one city to another and avoid highways it sometimes takes like 15-20 minutes (seriously) to calculate that route. That part sucks.

Is Organic Maps good for car navigation and for pedestrians?

As for public transport: You might want to try Transportr. I used it in London and many other cities in the world and it is doing a really good job. Just make sure you take the apk from their github repo. It's outdated on F-Droid.

    DeletedUser98 organic maps seems ok so far. osmand ui is a bit of a put off tbh. ui design is as important as back end to me.

    as someone mentioned in a different post, GOS (or others like lineage or COS) are teaching me to strike the balance between convenience and privacy, with compromises.

      Organic Maps is pretty decent. magic maps apparently has a tracker. I think sometimes you have to find the spot you want on the map and then say route there to get directions in organic maps.

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        • Post #9

        Bio_Logik
        I've used OSM for many years around the world and in London as well with ...Greater London w/o any significant issues.
        On my phones for many years there has been no space for Google Play services

            [deleted] thanks. u dont find the loading time painful? as for the ui, it isnt in par with modern app imo.

              that is the link. when i go there it says

              This app may share these data types with third parties
              Location
              Icon image
              This app may collect these data types
              App info and performance

              I hope this helps. i really think Google Maps and Google Earth are fantastic apps, but
              do not use them

                zehyani thanks, i saw that, but i dwded offline map of my country and rove all permissions.
                after checking many apps, magic earth amd organic map are my choice. osman deffo a no go, not intuitive and loadig time is horrendous (considering it is an offline map, doesnt make sense) for routes amd journey, either google map pwa or tlf pwa.

                  3 months later

                  OsmAnd works perfectly but you need to install from Huawei AppGalary and also it needs Huawei HMS Core which is like Google framework. ( yes i am aware that China can do some telemetry via this)

                  a year later

                  Help, I can't get the speaker to work with OsmAnd! It gives an immediate error code "Cannot start text-to-speach engine". What does that mean?

                  • de0u replied to this.

                    taemex "Cannot start text-to-speach engine".

                    Has a text-to-speech app been installed and configured? If so then the "Play" button in Settings, Accessibility, Text-to-speech output should say something.

                      So a text-to-speech app is not native to Graphene and must be installed first? This, I did not know. I recently installed, "Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google" to allow DuoLingo to work because speech-to-text would not work otherwise and this seems to also have made OsmAnd speech work, even though that is technically the reverse, text-to-speech! Everything works fine now!

                        taemex even though that is technically the reverse,

                        Google Speech Services includes support for both speech to text and text to speech.