• Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    Organic maps is better than Google maps for about everything besides finding businesses. If you’re traveling long distances for landmark tourism especially, it’s just objectively better IMO.

    • Jin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      Google map is especially good for travel/tourism because how well it handles public transportation, how long it takes, how much it cost, different routes etc.

      • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Didn’t even think about that because I live in America and mostly tour around rural areas with no public transportation lol

        • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          It should be “easily” implemented in organic maps though. Google in my country just connects to the official api of the main transportation company

          • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            32·
            3 months ago

            American here: What’s a transportation company? (I jest, but seriously, probably hundreds of thousands of transportation companies.)

            • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Sure thing. I checked and openstreetmaps supports the Oslo transport system. But idk how google deals with everyone.

              • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                Google publishes an API for different transit agencies to follow. If you can parse that, you’ll have the same information Google has.

                Note that not all transit agencies provide the same data.

    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      It’s the best map for finding businesses in my town, well OSM which it uses is because I updated them all using street complete and the web interface. You can be part of the effort to make free solutions the best solutions by upgrading your own areas info.

      • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Been doing that, unfortunately I live in a big city so it’s a bit of an infinite treadmill. I like to just mark parking lots since no one seems to do those ever and they’re changing pretty frequently.

    • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I wish there was better public transport on the level of Oeffi. Google Maps is still way ahead in this regard unfortunately.

        • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I was thinking of maps.me but I understand this is actually a fork of that. There’s wikilok for proper trail navigation. And others that are less popular but still use the same base for mapping.