Magic Earth has absolutely nothing to do with OM and Osmand because the application offers the basics, real time traffic, you use Magic Earth and Here WeGo or nothing at all.
PSA: Best of both worlds aka a workable compromise
Use Here WeGo Offline for Better Privacy
- Install the Here WeGo app.
- Download offline maps of your areas of interest.
- Disable network access for the app.
- Run the app in offline mode.
Notes:
- Live traffic and other network-dependent features wonāt work offline.
- For enhanced privacy, clear the appās cache periodically or reinstall it.
- Maps typically remain accurate for a year or longer, depending on your location.
This setup helps prevent data leakage while maintaining core functionality.
What youāre proposing isnāt compromise, itās pointless, if thatās what itās all about you might as well use OM or Osmand.
Thereās no logic in using a navigation application with real-time traffic without using real-time traffic, itās useless.
FYI, I just got an alert of Here WeGoās privacy policy updating and it looks worse than it used to be. More specificaly, I donāt remember a paragraph like this before:
The Service may send your Location Data to HERE when you use location enabled features of the Service, such as enable navigation, ask information about nearby services or offerings, use search features, provide you with relevant offers from Transport Providers and public transportation vendors, as well as when the Service asks for new maps for new areas you have navigated into.
If I remember correctly, location data was only shared with HERE when you opted in for live traffic data.
At least they still claim to anonymise and aggreate the location data.
This also feels new:
The Service may include provision of location based advertising or other similar content. [ā¦] The Service may also include behaviorally profiled advertisements. For the purposes of providing relevant advertisements to you, we may share your device specific advertising ID to advertising networks.
Iām not sure this new Privacy Policy is any better than Google Mapsā 
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Yeah really Iām not big on relying on privacy policy and pinky promises anyway, if there was an online maps service that used homomorphic encryption or something to ensure they couldnāt access your data even if they wanted to then Iād be interested but splitting hairs about which service technically has the better privacy policy isnāt very useful to me.
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