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Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ... by BitterPanda on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:02AM (#37219873)
Love it! I use organic maps on a daily basis and it is an awesome tool even if you're just commuting.
Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ... by mcv on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:25AM (#37220005)
I have it too, but often forget to use it in favour of Google Maps, but Google Maps is terrible for anything not in a car or train, and OSM always has fantastic detail for hiking trails. Every vacation I find myself switching to Organic Maps.

This vacation it helped us find a trail to a really beautiful waterfall in Switzerland.

Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ... by SSLy on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:49AM (#37220915)
Google Maps whole use case is finding restaurants and pubs in new places, and that's about it.
Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ... by mcv on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:59AM (#37220979)
Even that it's not great at. It's not showing them all, it's not showing the link to the restaurant itself upfront, but neither is the menu it lists the right one.

If they actually wanted to make it easy to find the right restaurant for you in the area, there's dozens of things they could do to make it easier for people.

Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ... by BitterPanda on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:55AM (#37222769)
Organic maps has the same feature and they also have opening hours which is cool, Google Maps still has a lot more but for an Open-Source project it's quite decent
Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ... by darkwater on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:11AM (#37219920)
TIL about it and I'm gonna try it for sure. Yesterday I had a very bad experience with a "Garmin Connect" generated route for gravel bike, by checking it in Organic Maps I could probably have avoided the issue.