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An alernative to Magic Earth would be Organic Maps. https://organicmaps.app/

Though it's not as focused on driving, it seems. But may be good enough.

I use both as I find the trails on Organic Maps easier to follow, while Magic Earth works better in cities. This is with the default map types. There might be a setting I could toggle to give me the best of both in one app.

I haven't seen much mention of Maps.Me, but it's another OSM-based android app I've heard good things about from Europeans and enjoyed while traveling in South America.

I haven't tried it much in the US.

Organic Maps is a fork of maps.me that was started after maps.me got bought.

The US should be pretty good for trails, reasonable for streets and highly variable for addresses and POIs.

Organic Maps is the "original" maps.me. Though highly rated, maps.me changed ownership a few times and in between had removed lot of the original features. I believe at that time the original developers of maps.me launched Organic Maps, even though the changes mentioned above have now been reversed.

One advantage of Organic Maps is that it integrates well with OpenStreetMap. As I live in a place where OSM coverage is pretty average, I have fun adding places I know through this application and make small contributions in my own way. It also does not collect any user data. Give it a try.

These apps are pretty much not useable in rest of the world.

OpenStreetMap data is probably the best geographic data you’ll find all around the world. Which region are you speaking about?

India.

Honest question: Is Google Maps much better than OpenStreetMap in India?

I have the luxury to live in central Europe, and here both are much, much closer in amount of detail.

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