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What navigation app do you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I use OSM and Organic Maps, but I have difficulty searching by address or business. I end up using my computer, finding the location, matching it to the map in the app, and favoriting it. Am I doing this the dumb way? Is there an alternative FOSS navigation app which has this functionality?

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[–] nemo@piefed.social -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I live in Chicago, which uses a grid system. Apps are unnecessary for in-town trips.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I live in a city that resembles nothing like a grid, but I still don't need navigation because it's my home town. Of course you don't need navigation if you know the way to where you're going.

Having a grid system makes no difference anyway if you don't know the address. "Let's meet up at Starbucks!" "Oh... kay. Where's that?"

[–] nemo@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fair bit of difference between a map app and a navigation app. I'll use a tool to find out where I'm going but I don't need one to tell me how to get there.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fair point, I suppose. Though the original commenter said that "apps" [in general] are unnecessary. That's how I interpreted it. And that they are so due to the grid system where they live. I call BS. I bet it helps, but not for someone who isn't used to it either. It wouldn't help me, as a European, because I have no experience with it.

[–] pescetarian@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You probably live in a deep village... I always use a navigator, even for short distances, maps show where the speed limit cameras are, where the police are now (by 80%) because users set where they are now... Interchanges, highways, etc. But in general, of course, cameras (their number grows like mushrooms after rain)Now you can't go anywhere without navigation.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You probably live in a deep village

A "deep" village? What does that mean?

There are over 130,000 people in my city, growing by about 1,000 every year. So not a huge city but not a village. 😄 Takes probably 30 minutes to drive across town with negligible traffic? Anyway...

maps show where the speed limit cameras are, where the police are now

cameras (their number grows like mushrooms after rain)Now you can't go anywhere without navigation.

Why do you need to know where speed limit cameras and police are at all times? Sounds to me like you prrrooobably shouldn't have a driver's license to begin with? Or you live in a place where police are a danger to society rather than protection. I'm willing to guess which side of the Atlantic but I'll refrain.

I can definitely travel without navigation lol. Even when visiting a bigger city with maybe half a million people. As long as I know where I'm going, it's fine. 👍