Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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if you want people to quit something, you better offer alternatives.
Live traffic updates is a big one that all the foss alternatives are missing.
True. I'm using CoMaps wherever I can and switch to Here we go when I need live traffic updates.
I tried OsmAnd in the past, I paid for it and it's still installed in my phone, but I keep going back to Google Maps for "default" maps. OsmAnd is missing the Cycle Map layer of openstreetmaps.org and is not super useful in my case. And we all know Google Maps is very bad for cycling too, but it's good at finding places, so I just make my own route instead of using the four lane artery it suggested me to cycle on.
The exception is when I'm hiking or walking long distances and need to find/record my position on a map, relative to a pedestrian path or hiking trail. For this I've always used AlpineQuest. I don't know if it's made by Americans though. AlpineQuest also has the Cycle Map layer, so it's my second favourite map app, but I mainly use it when I'm in a big park, or not in a city.
Still, openstreetmaps.org with the Cycle Map layer is wonderful for planning cycling and hiking routes by yourself. Unfortunately it's just absolutely bad at making any kind of route by itself.
I've just heard about CoMaps recently. I also don't know if it's mainly American, but it's open source, community driven, and based on OSM data, which is important. It has adresses and seems like a promising alternative to Google Maps for my "default" searches, so I'm going to give it a try. However it's just an app and there doesn't seem to be a simple website matching the mobile experience, so I'm kind of guessing that I won't try it for long.
CoMaps is missing so much information in my area and only navigates you to the address block if done by address. Also navigating by address means I'd have to find the address of the place first probably in Google maps and then put it in.
Do you mean CyclOSM? If so, you just have to configure some settings, although I agree it's non-obvious.
No. I can get CyclOSM on OsmAnd but I really don't like it because it's too busy and difficult to tell the difference between types of bike paths. Also, CyclOSM has always been very slow in a browser on any of my computers, having tiles taking a few dozen seconds to load. Cycle Map is the layer next to CyclOSM and to me, it's very useful because it highlights major paths, by national, regional and local. A bit like showing the highways for bikes. Both layers are useful but given that CyclOSM is very very slow, and lacks those highlights, I prefer Cycle Map.
For reference, CyclOSM looks like this when there's no tiles missing:
And Cycle Map looks like this:
Digging around, it looks like that cycle map source was removed from osmand due to API costs, which doesn't apply to the browser version for whatever reason (or openstreemap.org are paying for it).
EDIT: I'm guessing you already tried it, but the built in "bike routes" option is less busy in my location. It seems to only work with the offline vector maps though, so I couldn't quickly test how it looks in Montreal. Although testing another city it looks busy enough to be problematic for you I suspect.
Cycloroute and Brouter can be added to OSM. I've never gotten brouter to work though. Cycloroute seems the best for my area.
I'm not familiar with Cycloroute nor Brouter, and can't find much about them. What are they?
I can't seem to click on any icons for information on the browser. I'm not expecting reviews of stores, but it'd be nice to be able to see the name and address. Am I doing something wrong?
I've tried but I can't find shit on there, sometimes even when I directly paste the address. Magic Earth is still not as good but much closer.
If you combine ME with the apple maps web beta you can get closer to the functionality of Gmaps.
I understand that both of these aren't as good for privacy as OSM.
Acastus is what solved the Problem for me. Yes, it's a second app which is a annoying, but it works vers well.
Does it do addresses or also names? Google is very good for I want to go here and it takes you there. You don't have to find the address and type it in.
Yes, it also does points of interests. So you can just enter "Museum of Fine Arts" and it will work.
The workflow is: Enter location name, click on results, the app automatically leads you to OSMAnd, it takes some seconds and your marker is there.