I’ve been using CoMaps for a while as my only map app and I’m very happy with it.

Cartes is probably the closest thing that I've found (besides Apple Maps or Bing Maps).

• You can share links with anyone, and they don't need a particular app to open it.
• The interface will be familiar to Google maps users.
• It supports leaving reviews for locations.
• It will pull up Wikipedia information and photos if any have been uploaded to Wikimedia or Panoramax.
• It's really good for public transit routing.
• It's okay for planning driving routes, but for turn by turn directions you'll want to use CoMaps (which Cartes has a link to open up the route there).

If it meets your requirements, try Vela Maps which is a degoogled Google Maps.

" A degoogled maps & navigation client for Android - what NewPipe is to YouTube, for Google Maps. Open vector tiles for the basemap, the device itself scraping Google's public web endpoints (per-user, no backend) for the things only Google does well: POI quality, routing, and traffic-aware ETAs. Built to run on GrapheneOS and other no-GMS ROMs. "

I think it's a fairly new product and seems to be rapidly improving performance with quite a few updates lately. (I have discovered some glitches but they seem to be addressed as soon as the app updates the next time.)

It might meet your requirements because it's not Google Maps.

It might not meet your requirements if you want a truly no-Google product, because it uses a few Google things anonymously in the back end...

Openstreetmaps

Android app OSMAnd+

Co-maps generally works good for me, bht the bjg disadvantage is it has no traffic data (I think this might be inherently incompatable with standard foss, would love to be wrong though). So my go to when driving is HERE wego, which works well and is up to date (and not evil as far as I know)

CoMaps is good if you already know where to go.
I use it in conjunction with GMapsWV: look for a place, copy the coordinates with the share button and paste them into CoMaps.
Never missed an address and I use it quite a bit.

If OSM isn't good enough, make it better.

Comaps works well for me. If it's not comprehensive enough, contribute! OSM is crowd-sourced.

I was using organic until CoMaps forked it, now CoMaps is the way. It's open street map so you can sign up and fix whatever you want, pull down the next version and it's there.

I do miss street view, voiced street names, and really miss cowdsourced hazards from waze but it's worth it if you're not on a long high speed trip.

edit: turns out you can turn on tts street names

From my own recent tests, Maps.me is good for finding businesses, citymapper is good for public transport, and TomTom is good for driving directions with live trafic.

OSMAnd is amazing, customisable, can do everything (I use it for hiking, saving locations, and topography) but for things you'd use google for (finding businesses, driving, street view) google does those things much better.

And PSA for those who don't know, Waze is owned by google and maintained in Israel.

CoMaps, which uses OpenStreetMap. StreetComplete gamifies adding data to OpenStreetMap.
Sometimes Magic Earth.

The only time i use google is when i want street view.

deflock Half joking

I wish there was a way to export a pre-calculated route from deflock to CoMaps though that would just be the bees knees

I love Organic Maps. Works on Android and IOS. Fully offline (maps predownload at first run) and all route calculation is locally computed so it's especially good for hiking or where signal is poor.

Only thing I miss is live traffic updates but for me that's an acceptable tradeoff for the ultimate offline privacy as far as a digital map can do it.

The voice it uses is whatever's built into the phone's accessibility features so on some devices it sounds a bit janky, but on Android at least you can install different ones if that bothers you.

good or better then google maps, no, they're are a trillion $ company with major resoirces

I use OSMAnd+ its a little bit shit but ot gets me by. I also edit a little bit of Open Street maps in my area to help

I've just started using MapQuest like many others since the lake ontario thing. It's been pretty good and I find it a lot more functional and accurate than the Foss options at the moment. It's not perfect but it's also not Google or apple.

OrganicMaps: https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps

Osmand(Open Street Map))

Mapy.com

Comaps

Here Wego is proprietary and corporate, BUT it's non-USA and it has live traffic

edit: to clarify, non-USA ownership, but usa roads and traffic data are available

MapQuest is a perfectly reasonable commercial alternative that has all of the things you'd expect - dynamically-loaded map tiles, turn-by-turn nav, etc. If you want to look at options that use OpenStreetMap data, I've found CoMaps to be very good. The biggest drawback is that you have to download maps (~100-300MB per geo area) all at once, which can be a problem if you're on the road and don't have great signal strength.

https://github.com/PimpinPumpkin/Vela

I use HERE WeGo. I switched over a month ago and haven't had a problem yet.

Magic Earth is good but it's proprietary and some features require a subscription. I also vote for CoMaps.

for basic things openstreetmaps based ones (comaps organic maps), for anything else no.

Paper map?

I have a standalone GPS like it's 2008, in addition to excellent offline navigation it also probably doesn't spy on me

Osmand+

I can never find anything on OSM based maps by themselves. My current method is to search via the Apple Maps web beta then use geoshare to copy the location to CoMaps for turn-by-turn. I have magic earth installed as a fallback if I have problems with comaps.

No. Most aren't able to do basic navigation to addresses of people. I'd like it to be different but for me CoMaps and the other ones aren't useful (yet)

Which map is good depends largely on your needs, I think. Do you need it for car navigation, walking, biking, or public transport? OSM maps are better for pedestrians and cyclists in many regions, while Google Maps is more designed for car drivers.

I use CoMaps and Vela Maps.

I use CoMaps when navigating: https://www.comaps.app/

I also recommend Obtainium for installing it: https://obtainium.imranr.dev/

Vela Maps

Osmand is so good, Maps is a shittier alternative these days. I only use Osmand and occasiobaly "gmaps wv" wrapper for google maps from fdroid if I need traffic density.

The problem with Here Wego maps and MapQuest that they do contain outdated information, but in Osmand and CoMaps, you can just login and add this information yourself.

I've tried several over the past few weeks. There aren't any that can even do the basic job of mapping from point a to b consistently for some reason. Mapquest came the closest, but 3 issues.

1. It won't stay in landscape mode unless I put my tablet on Dex
2. It often can't find addresses based on business names, and sometimes not at all.
3. It doesn't have wide enough categories to find a good amount of places if you don't know the address or name of what you're wanting

I like the interface, it looks nice, but it's missing key map things, that should be the basics over things like a unicorn icon, which is cute, but useless.

I'm not sure how it stacks up with the rest, but for web: https://mapcarta.com/

"Explore the globe with Mapcarta—the open map that unites the world through the collective knowledge of OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects."

No but I use comaps anyways

I tried most of the ones mentioned here but they rarely include any ratings or additional features. For me what comes close enough to a Google/apple maps alternative is mapy.com . Its not Foss and some features are behind a subscription. But its European and 19€ a year is OK with me. Some features that might be interesting:

• Sport/Activity tracking
• Traffic / speed camera info
• Way finding using public transport
• Integrated navigation voices
• Live location sharing

I've been using a few but mostly CoMaps. What I would love to see most in any google maps alternative is voice search, but not sure that is an option outside big tech.

Apple has been fine but it is apple

Cartes

I love Osmand+. it's so much more than just google maps. it also has public transport, but it's in beta state right now.

I pay to use Sygic for turn by turn driving directions and it's been worth it. Can even pay through their website and bypass paying through Google Play, which I feel is a big blind spot for a lot of these services.

Also it's a euro based company, so data sovereignty is possible.

I use Comaps on my phone and OpenStreetMap data on a Garmin Nuvi I got from the thrift store for $8.

The foldable paper ones that you picked up at the gas station or tourist kiosk were the best and they were immune to name change updates.

I actually think Apple Maps has gotten pretty good. I think they are better than Google at directions, Google is better at discovery.

I know that’s probably not the alternative you’re looking for, but it’s something.

I just wanted to add here that Here WeGo is owned by BMW/Mercedes (according to wikipedia) and they just changed GUlf of Mexico to the trash. So ... no Here WeGo.

@InterestingUsername +1 for #CoMaps and #OSM . Also started using #NuNav as a replacement for Magic Earth for Car Navigation. It also uses Maps from #OpenStreetMap .

I really appreciate mapy.com. They are european (Czech) company. Outside of Czech Republic they base on OSM and have very pretty and useful rendering of "outdoor" map, especially with hiking trails and point of interests almost like on paper map.

They also have their own system of posting images and commenting and have some noticable community, yet much smaller than on google. You can also contribute to map content, yet I am not sure if they contribute upstream to OSM.

The killer-paid-feature for me is vector offline maps in the "outdoor" flavor, which saved me many times on trips with poor internet coverage.

I hope they survive long before someone buys and enshittifies them.

Not if you live more wild away from civilization.

Home assistant has a perfectly serviceable map in it I forget where it gets the data from