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What's a good navigation app for Android that works outside the US? (Scout doesn't)

I have a couple of apps in my phone (Navigator and Waze), but the UI is really cumbersome compared to Google Maps. I use them because OSM maps are better in small tows in my area than Google Maps, plus you can keep offline maps.

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OsmAnd? I don't really use it for navigation (why not, see below) but I know that it is a feature and I'm 100% sure of its offline maps capability.

Why not: It doesn't have bus/train/streetcar transit routing, something I don't expect it to have, though I'm feverishly adding all of the bus stops around me just in case.

I use it for a general idea of where to drive. But I don't follow the directions blindly. It seems to equate all "highways", meaning it gives equal weight to interstates and state highways, which results in routes which are direct, but slower than a slightly more indirect route making more use of interstates.

In Settings > Navigation, you can change the routing engine, incidentally, which might solve that problem. Although the other options require an internet connection for the initial calculation.

Thanks. I guess I've shied away from those because I'm often out of cell service when I need directions :) But I should do some test runs to see how they compare.

I think it would benefit from an option for 'Online routing when available'.

Get your local transit provider to publish their schedules in GTFS! (Or maybe they already do? http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/ )

Waze has nothing to do with OpenStreetMap

Does Google Maps not work outside the US either?

They of course DO work outside the US.

The last time I tried to find an office building in Berlin, Google Maps sent me to a primary school.

House in London? House in Sussex.

Google Maps doesn't work all that well outside the US in my experience.

I used Google Maps in Japan in January 2014. It worked perfectly.

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