I tested Magic Earth for my work commute for about a week in hopes of moving away from Waze. It is working really well, but what it really lacks is information about traffic congestion. It will always take me though the same route to work and set a really optimistic ETA because it assumes low traffic. The main benefit of waze is anticipating traffic and planning reroutes. With Waze my ETAs have always been surprisingly accurate, but Magic Earth was off by almost 20 minutes on a 1 hour commute and placing me in the peak traffic route
Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth
foiledAgain@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Why? What are the benefits? Better than Waze too?
nyanyans@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
foiledAgain@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yeah this is a key feature for me so won’t be switching from waze
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
OSM frontend.
there’s no totally FOSS maps app on IOS, but a free OSM frontend is about as good as you’re going to get.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Waze is owned by Google, so it probably implemented the “Gulf of America” typo too. Just tested Magic Earth for a few minutes, and Organic Maps seems to be the more polished of the two in terms of OpenStreetMap frontend apps, in my opinion.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
HERE WeGo is really good, I’ve been using it for years. Has offline mode too so you only rely on GPS and downloaded maps, but has online mode too for realtime traffic info. Can’t comment on this part since I don’t use it.