I have found OSM data (and therefore Organic Maps) more up to date than the others, at least for roads. In the past six months for me that was three different cities, and two different countries. Small sample size, but including my city there were several places that google had not updated for years.

As for your city to OSM integration: OSM does not take data dumps. But your city could encourage people to update the data in OSM or better still leverage OSM as a data truth and curate it, and load ArcGIS datastores from it.

You can help using Street Complete which is a very easy to use android app that fills in the details of whereever you are at: Is this road paved? What are the business hours here? Is there street lighting? etc.

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Saying Waze and Google in the same phrase is, unfortunately, redundant

Into a swan.

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For live traffic, try Magic Earth. I haven’t used it in a while, but it’s another alternative to consider. :)

Not for Route calculation. But you can use the googlemaps interface as an overlay.

https://hoerli.net/osmand-google-traffic-anzeigen/ It’s German, but the pictures should be enough.

Of course you have to download the map ypu wanna use, duh. Plus I live in a third world country and it has everything so far including adresses and it works even for coordinates

It was interesting trying to give Organic Maps a college try. In the US it seems about useless, even after downloading all 50 states. One can get navigation to work to the city or street (but not the address) at the destination, but it seems the easiest way to plot a destination is to just physically zoom in and find it on the map and tell it to navigate to that location. It seems incapable of looking up addresses, which makes one wonder if they’re somehow missing from the base mapping data, or if the application just doesn’t have the “smarts” to query addresses in certain countries correctly.

I’ve used all sorts of GPS mapping software over the years both on dedicated hardware, computers, etc. including the more arcane that have you start at street number or zip code and then drill down layer by layer so the backing software doesn’t have to work so hard. This is the first I’ve seen that doesn’t seem to have the ability to find simple street addresses.

It could be that in countries that it’s popular, the base mapping data works better.

Maps.me (albeit, they seem to not be as good as they once were) and Here WeGo (which is an ex-Nokia commercial property that for some reason is free to use offline? So you’re probably the product.) both seem to do a better job at both addresses and mapping routes that make sense. I agree with solrize@solrize@lemmy.world that Osmand seems very the opposite of user friendly.

GPS became available to the public in the 80’s. I’d say that counts as decades old

GPS tech is definitely decades old, I could dig out a couple of handheld units I have in a box that would qualify for that distinction (circa 2000) and those were a few models into what was available to consumers let alone unis and governments.

Using that specific application for decades is more of a stretch, but technically possible if you count all Mapfactor navigation and they first used it on a PC (released 2002 apparently). Even on mobile devices it’s not that far off qualifying as possible though (released 2007 on Windows CE so 16 years).