I made a site for Google alternatives this week called https://nomoregoogle.com.
The only real alternatives for Google Maps as a consumer are:
Alternatives for Google Maps embedded in your app are:
Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?
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#22Mapy.cz is great especially for tourists. Also has an API with generous limits.
In Europe lots of countries have local mapping systems, geoportail.fr for example.
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#23From a user-perspective definitely Waze. It provides a great voice assistant and live updates from other users. Other Waze users are on-screen and you can chat to them. Other users can report roadblocks, broken down cars, traffic jams, slow-downs and even accidents long before any radio station finds out about them. It has places you can go to which are more accurate than that of Google Maps. Plus, it also shows you…
In addition to Waze being owned by Google, as mentioned by others, Waze pops up ads in the middle of trips which should never be tolerated by users. Waze also tends to make bad traffic worse by directing cars off high-volume roads onto low-volume roads, distributing gridlock everywhere and encouraging people to drive through residential neighborhoods or other areas that cannot support this type of traffic. And finally, Waze is not a general purpose mapping application, but a very specific one for driving. I think that's enough from me on this. :-)
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#24Depending on your use cases OpenStreetMap may be suitable. For commercial use you probably need to set up your own servers but that can work to your advantage in that you're better insulated from random price hikes.
I tried OSM yesterday and it couldn't find my friend's house address in the map. Not that it couldn't navigate there - it said the location didn't exist. Google maps finds it right away.
Did you add the address? The beauty of OSM is that anyone can edit the data set.
For some things it's much better than Google, hiking trails and bike paths for example.
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#25I made a site for Google alternatives this week called https://nomoregoogle.com . The only real alternatives for Google Maps as a consumer are: - https://wego.here.com/ - https://openstreetmap.org/ Alternatives for Google Maps embedded in your app are: - https://mapbox.com/ - https://leafletjs.com/ - https://www.nextzen.org/ - https://www.mapcat.com/
Thanks for making this, looks neat.
Quick observation, my votes dont seem to stick. (Most likely I am doing something wrong). How do I vote correctly?
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#26From a user-perspective definitely Waze. It provides a great voice assistant and live updates from other users. Other Waze users are on-screen and you can chat to them. Other users can report roadblocks, broken down cars, traffic jams, slow-downs and even accidents long before any radio station finds out about them. It has places you can go to which are more accurate than that of Google Maps. Plus, it also shows you…
Does Waze have public transport navigation?
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#27Transit App for public transport route choosing and timetables. In fact, it is much better than Google maps for this purpose.
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#28I made a site for Google alternatives this week called https://nomoregoogle.com . The only real alternatives for Google Maps as a consumer are: - https://wego.here.com/ - https://openstreetmap.org/ Alternatives for Google Maps embedded in your app are: - https://mapbox.com/ - https://leafletjs.com/ - https://www.nextzen.org/ - https://www.mapcat.com/
On my phone I pretty much use wego, as it has offline maps for free including navigation with public transport for many cities.
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#29Here maps is fantastic in my opinion. I think you can download map data in google and others (maybe?) but in here it is a first class feature.
Hugely useful if you are traveling and without data.
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#30Have a look on maps.yandex.ru