Which is not surprising, as those two have very different priorities.

- OSM want's a detailed and reliable map.

- Google maps tries to either sell your data to clients, or make you buy from them.

Their business data is their priority for maps. You can see that clearly when you look at location history changes over past decade or so. It used to be actual user location history and it was glorious. Now it's "near what businesses you were more or less, help us rate them".

It's a great moment to again remind about existence of low-friction tools that you can use to add business data (among others) to OSM, like StreetComplete app, available on F-droid and Google Play :)

https://streetcomplete.app/?lang=en

In my region OSM business data starts to be on par with google, better (more up to date) sometimes.

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DanOpcode a day ago | parent | next [-]

I have recently tried to navigate with OsmAnd a few times where I live. Once I ended up in the wrong location, and a few times I have had to look up the business in Google Maps to find their address.

I would love to use OsmAnd more. StreetComplete sounds great and looks like a nice way to be able to contribute fixes to OSM. Thanks for the recommendation!

	▲	szszrk a day ago \| parent [-]
		It is smooth and kind of "I'm doing my part!" but with low friction. > a few times I have had to look up the business in Google Maps to find their address Exactly my point - Gmaps taught us to expect *businesses" on maps. Not addresses. Pins and stars, instead of streets and numbers. Arrival time and traffic, instead of distance, elevation and road type (size). I use gmaps still, mostly for businesses, but to actually know where I am I have better options. Gmaps hides most of typical map features - you see less of trees, water, buildings, height elevation. On Comaps/Osmand you suddenly can correlate map with things you see (without street view! :P).

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eisa01 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If you just want to add POI data, then Every Door is a good choice that also works on iOS

CoMaps would be a good map app, and it will also display when POIs and opening hours were last confirmed (the only OSM app to do so AFAIK)

https://every-door.app https://www.comaps.app