Many people use mapping services on a daily basis, and mapping apps inherently have access to very sensitive location data. Organic Maps is open source, well-maintained, and privacy-focused, with the ability to download maps for offline use. It’s simple and easy to use, and allows you to easily con…

More general discussion to add maps and navigation apps: [image] Add Navigation (GPS) tools Site Development Thought i would bring this up since i saw no related results when searching. Since using GPS navigation is really common and rife with privacy issues, I think it w…

[image] mangomango: did you try Magic Earth ? Does anyone how well their traffic feature works ? I’ll try this week and get back to you.

[image] AnotherBloodyUsername: Im surprised there is no maps page. Organic maps is dam well good as open street maps is always being updated in some way. I think OP or someone else should take time to build the page recommendation on Github, cause I am not sure anyone on Team has interest in …

[image] mangomango: did you try Magic Earth ? Does anyone how well their traffic feature works ? So I’ve been trying it for a week now. Running both google maps and Magic Earth at the same time. Traffic estimates have been wild. For 6 runs, here are the results: 1st run: 45minutes run. I f…

I can vouch for this. I do use it alongside GMapsWV but aside from that navigation and it’s FOSS nature is actually really great. It does well for it’s purpose and it has Android Auto support if you so use it!

I’m really surprised, what country did you use Magic Earth in to get such results? I showed it to a hundred people around me and they replaced GMaps and Apple Plan with Magic Earth because it’s so relevant in France. The big plus is also the speed camera warning, a function that’s not available on G…

[image] Pragmatic: The big plus is also the speed camera warning, a function that’s not available on GMaps in France. It’s available in GMaps in other countries because of waze. I’d be the first to cheer for a Gmaps alternative, but all the ones I tried so far have failed (mostly because of …

if you want traffic data thats what gmaps and waze are for, personally I would just use them in the web app if I need to check that…

I’m in favor of adding organic maps if the rest of the @team are in agreement.

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More general discussion to add maps and navigation apps:

Relevant pull request:
https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/2827

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