Tried to use OSMAnd last week to navigate around on vacation. For some reason it seems to be incapable of searching for house numbers, which is an instant dealbreaker. I'm very confused as to how or why this is a thing on such a mature product.

I was able to share a location from GMaps WV over to it to get navigation working, and from there the navigation was awesome!

Currently also testing Magic Earth and Organic Maps but I'm very interested to hear from those with more experience.

  • kniescherz@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Locus is a commercial application from a small czech company (around 10 employees). Pricing is overall fair and they work hard to get wishes from the users in the app. But I can understand when one wants to prevent using apps which are using google services.

    An open source app which goes in a similar direction is Osmand+ which is on fdroid for sure https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/

      • kniescherz@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Ahh weird. I just tested it and Osmand showed me the correct house just fine when I searched with a number. Tested for two houses. I had to download the map though, otherwise no results.

        • HughJanus@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yes, as I said, I can see the properties on the map but it will not find them when I search for them.

          • kniescherz@feddit.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Yes I understand. I just wanted to tell you that Osmand should be capable of that and it works for me. So maybe open a bug ticket to get this sorted.