r/BuyFromEU • u/crysard • 5d ago

🔎Looking for alternative Google maps alternative for navigation app?

I switched most stuff meanwhile but im unsure which navigation app i could use instead of google maps

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u/Reasonable_Curve_647 5d ago edited 5d ago

Mapy.com

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u/turaon 5d ago

Comaps, Organic maps, Magic Earth, Sygic are mich better than this Mapy.com shit, what can’t even find places, addresses and doesn’t have traffic information in most of Europe.
I don’t understand, why this failed product is so much spread around, while there really are much better alternatives, what actually work everywhere.

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u/Reasonable_Curve_647 5d ago

CoMaps, Organic Maps or any other map app based on OpenStreetMap data do not provide support for adding Reviews and Photos, which many people leaving Google Maps like when choosing to which place to go eat, if the place is worth visiting and many more. (Even tho it is possible with integration of Mangrove.reviews and Panoramax, like MapComplete was able to do.)

Also for me personally mapy.com work much better in czechia than any other map as they have the most details, speed limits, access restriction and more, that are still missing from OSM, even when im activly adding them to OSM myself in my area.

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u/turaon 5d ago

Yes, you are right about reviews and about it being good in Czechia. Outside of Czechia and Slovakia they also use OSM maps, but I don’t see them contributing to OSM. While I have added things through them I haven’t seen those contributions being updated in OSM.

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u/Reasonable_Curve_647 5d ago

From OSM Wiki I can see they contribute to OSM, but I also dont know how exactly, as the map of Czechia is twice the size for downlaod (details) compared to other apps.

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u/FlyingCars2027 4d ago

All of them are utterly ugly. Can’t any of these guys afford a decent designer?

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u/M8rio 3d ago

Mapy.com are really good in Czechia and Slovakia. Also they cover hiking trails in great detail around here. So I guess thats reason why they are so succesful recently.

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u/turaon 3d ago

Yes, but they are quite bad outside those countries. Recommending something what is good in only two countries, isn’t worth the effort.