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by Doctor_Fegg 4235 days ago
Depends where you live and what your use cases are. In many countries OpenStreetMap has road data of equivalent or better quality, and path/trail data of vastly superior quality to Google.

Unfortunately the US is not yet (consistently) one of those countries. But "there is no competition and no good alternative" is an over-generalisation.