Mike Taylor 🦕 on Nostr: Is there a free-as-in-freedom alternative to the #GoogleMaps app? Something using the ...
Is there a free-as-in-freedom alternative to the #GoogleMaps app? Something using the #OpenStreetMap data would be ideal.
UPDATE. I've installed Organic Maps. Disappointing start, it can't find my own home when when given the full address. (Waze got it from the first word of the name, no doubt helped by the GPS; but GPS is on for Organic, too.)
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