[striking]

I ended up in the winding mountain roads near Saratoga without cell service, and though I had SF downloaded on Google Maps, I hadn't added the rest of the Bay. We decided we wanted to change our destination and realized we wouldn't have any further navigation only after canceling our current trip.

But then I remembered I had Organic Maps tucked away, ready to go, with a highly detailed map of California for offline navigation use.

Big thanks to Organic Maps for making me seem prepared and allowing me to recover gracefully from what could otherwise have been a somewhat annoying situation.

[wildzzz]

I had the same thing happen to me once while driving in very rural West Virginia on some mountain highway. Google Maps crashed or something and cleared out my route. This place was so desolate that I was concerned I wasn't going to find any gas station nearby to even ask for directions. I had just enough EDGE cell service to make a phone call but couldn't get any app to download data. I called up my friend, gave her my GPS position from a GPS Status app I had recently installed (Google maps wasn't giving me a lat and long), and wrote down the route. I downloaded a map covering the entire route home when I got to my destination and have been doing that ever since for long drives.

I almost miss the days of printing out MapQuest directions

[seanw444]

I just have the entire US downloaded on OsmAnd+ now. I feel so much more relaxed knowing that I've got directions pretty much anywhere, always.

[Zak]

I always keep Organic Maps in reserve. Waze and Google Maps provide better navigation when they're working, but I've had them fail in places lacking mobile data even when I had offline maps downloaded to Google Maps.

I've never seen Organic Maps fail.

[hedora]

Here We Go’s (previously, Nokia Maps) offline support is as good as Organic Maps, and the routing is as good as Google/Apple. It runs on iOS and Android. CarPlay support is good. Haven’t tried android’s car ui.

I use it on my iPhone, but I’m rooting for OSM, long term.

I’d happily pay a bit to a company that put the money towards an open source, privacy preserving OSM app, and towards improving the upstream map data.

[richiebful1]

How is address lookup? That's the only bad thing about OSM based apps vs Google Maps in my region (rural Kentucky)

[troyvit]

It worked well when I used it. It was bought by Microsoft and is suffering the usual degradation that comes with that, but it's still a good app.