We should definitely have both, IMHO.
Organic Maps is (kind of) the “light” version of OsmAnd. The latter has all the features to a point where it gets confusing. You really need several hours to work through and understand all the settings.
I use both.
Where I have lived most of my life, I would be significantly worse without a car. I would love better public transit in most American cities. Currently, 25ish minute drive to my workplace, 2 hours if I use public transit where 30 minutes is walking. Just a complete non-starter. I could try a 53 minute bike ride, but considering the weather doesn’t always permit that and the people here hate cyclist, I’m stuck driving. And new laws are being passed to limit how good public transit can be in my town. I feel like I have 1000+ issues I need to tackle locally and I don’t have the time or money to support all of them.
I’ve been using Organic Maps on my trip since I didn’t get an eSIM, and I like it 
I found this thread, after searching for organic maps on the PG website - but then I was surprised when I didn’t find anything yet for navigation/maps.
This should be its own thread, but also generally using OpenStreetMap could be considered for looking up places on a map, at least compared to mainstream options - such as Google Maps. (OpenStreetMap also encourages me to add new places that don’t exist yet or to update places that are out of date, so that I will be able to find them after the next Organic Maps update.)
This is currently being added, see the reference to the main thread: Organic Maps - #33 by Regime6045
I’d recommend adding this thread and linking it to the main navigation/maps topic and pr. There’s also Vespucci to edit on a mobile device. I don’t know if it makes sense to recommend as it’s actually not a great option for updates. I really wish there were apps that could perform lookups to existing map APIs and gave us the tools to run anonymous calls to the Google or Apple maps API to make the mobile UX much cleaner.
We live in the suburbs of the United States and I work remotely so I rarely do go out to drive my kids places. The distribution of schools, libraries, and recreation centers, and design of the town generally assumes that you have a car. I believe this is common for many places in the US and Americas in general.
If there’s one thing COVID taught us, is that most e-commerce, software, and even a great deal of service jobs can be done virtually. Once that mirage was torn off, yet we still saw a bunch of jobs force workers to return to the office, the real clear issues are more systemically tied the economy and political factors. As we slowly push towards a more common-focused economy, I believe we’ll see employees favor working from home and push towards building their own businesses and therefore able to work from home. Ideally we can slowly push towards community-based education models where kids can have guided education mostly focused on peer-based interactions and open models for education and such.
Work and School cover such a large aspect of our lives that if we were able to simply do those from home, then most of our entertainment would split out to local stores and businesses again and people wouldn’t need to go to a central city location to make money even.
I think we’ll get there we just need to wait for the current US/China dominated markets to implode and keep chugging along with open source and other open movements.