[Accacin]

I run GrapheneOS, and have Magic Earth installed for car navigation.

The reason for that is it's search actually works, it displays live traffic info, and they have a simple easy-to-read privacy policy: https://www.magicearth.com/privacy/

Would it be better open source? Yeah, for sure. However, as far as I can tell, they abide by all the licencing terms for OSM, etc.

[joshvm]

I find OsmAnd to be OK in a pinch. I use it a lot abroad with full offline maps (the fee is less than $10 a year, bargain). You're right that search is bad. Often an exact search for a POI doesn't work, and it only shows the "increase radius" option. Generally search is very viewport dependent, which makes sense because there isn't a massive caching/index server managing geo requests. But, for "where am I" when Google refuses to cache anything, it's invaluable and there are nice plugins for tracking/logging trips.

I was in remote NZ without reception and we used it for navigation/routing. It wasn't the most efficient and Google disagreed when we finally got signal back, but it got us to where we wanted to be and the map was up to date enough.

[gspencley]

I also run GrapheneOS. Did you have to install Google Play to be able to install and use Magic Earth?

I'm trying to keep my phone as de-Google'd as possible.

That said, the one thing I miss from proprietary Android land is Google Maps so I am very interested in a comparable alternative. I'm trying Organic Maps at the moment, and had played with OsmAnd~ but found it lacking when I tried to use it for real-time navigation while driving.

[morserer]

F-Droid → Aurora Store for all your Play Store needs. No login needed.

[Accacin]

You probably know this by now, but it doesn't require any Google Services to be installed in GrapheneOS. I did install through Aurora, but you could just get the apk and install it like that.

[flangola7]

Here is a crazy fact... Google Maps doesn't require Play Services to be installed. About once a week it will popup a message about no services installed, but it still functions (other than logging in).