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I wonder what's the best-in-class iOS app using OpenStreetMap in terms of privacy . Functioning offline without sharing your location (or data derived from it) with some big-tech company selling it for $.

Magic Earth ( https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/magic-earth-navigation-maps/id... ) does not collect any data according to the App Store.

Magic Earth seems the best option of the apps mentioned, as they collect no data at all, indeed.

Thank you!

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In my country, there is an amazing government mandated service called Swiss Topo ( https://map.geo.admin.ch ), which can be accessed freely. Here are some features: - detailed maps from 1:10,000 to 1:1,000,000 - hiking routes which are actively maintained. You can create your own hiking routes, and it will estimate the time that it will take to complete them. - historical data, like historical maps since 1864 and aer…

NSW, Aus offers SIX Maps: https://six.maps.nsw.gov.au (this offers very good imagery of the NSW areas, better than google) That's the easy-to-use-maps. There's also the aus-wide https://nationalmap.gov.au where you get basic satellite maps with the option to add various datasets and even daily maps from Landsat 2A There's also ELVIS foundation spatial data https://elevation.fsdf.org.au There's don't really cover hiki…

Thanks for this comment!

How do you view daily maps from Landsat 2A? I couldn't find it in the options on nationalmap.gov.au

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