At this point I prefer OsmAnd navigation over Google maps.

Maps reliably does stupid things like route through winding residential streets because it thinks that's faster and can obviously be done at the full posted speed limit.

OsmAnd on the other hand builds routes I would build: get on the main road and get close, then get to the destination.

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technothrasher 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

OsmAnd has the annoying quark of suggesting that I drive off my retaining wall, through some woods, and then across some wetlands, in order to get to the road behind my house, rather than directing me down my long driveway to the road a little further away. This is because the driveway is marked as private in the OpenStreetMap data, because it is private. Obviously I know to just go down my driveway, but anybody trying to get directions to my house would be sent to the incorrect road behind it and then just abandoned. I contacted the OsmAnd folks and was told it was an OSM problem. But other apps using OSM data don't have this issue. I gave up with OsmAnd after that.

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yaomtc 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Settings > Driving > Navigation settings > Route parameters > Allow private access

	▲	snozolli an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Now you'll be routed through private roads anywhere. It should ignore the private flag if it's directly adjacent to the start or end of a route.

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brendyn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use osmand for privacy but I think it just emphasises main roads. In Melbourne it always suggests turning off cemetery road west because it doesn't know it's congested and will get me stuck for 20 minutes. And there are some missing slip roads. And navigation constantly fails to start. I wonder, how difficult is it to make minor edits to the map data?

	▲	pwg 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I wonder, how difficult is it to make minor edits to the map data? The map data is OpenStreetMap, so you can make edits via the standard OSM methods: Web: https://ideditor.com/ Local: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
	▲	evertheylen 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's just OpenStreetMap, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute

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greenavocado 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you lower max speed for your chosen transportation method osmand will alter your routing very significantly

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XorNot 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean, sure? But I don't do that. For city driving OsmAnd makes a sensible route which sticks to main roads whereas Google Maps was getting so bad me and my wife stopped using it because it's choices were bafflingly weird, and would do things like "make 8 turns down residential streets, then obviously make a turn across the busy 4 lane main road you could've already been driving on".

Google Maps for whatever reason routes like a residential street and turn can be negotiated at exactly the speed limit the whole way through.

	▲	macintux 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not only annoying for the driver, but also for the residents.