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by Zak 1041 days ago
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.

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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.

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