It's the best we have and has made so much headway, but it's got so many little usability issues, big and little missing features and insufficient data in OSM (location reviews/pictures, often even opening times, highway lane indicators, traffic jam avoidance, car parking location save feature, stop signs, speed limits...) and little annoyances that even as an Open street map contributor I stick to GoogleMaps for anything other than hiking.
It's rendering style is sooooo nice though, I really wish Osmand could render in the same style.
I do think it is a great project to support, where donations can have an outsized impact. Organic maps is our best shot yet at having OSM get wide use for general navigation. I just worry that it's ideological stance (e.g. no data collection ever) means it will never be able to support some things (e.g. traffic aware time estimates and routing, accident and speed trap warnings or sharing own live location with friends) that people just expect.
Might be a silly question, but why not walk outdoors? I find this a lot more enjoyable, though I guess it’d depend a lot on how foot-friendly your local area is.
I do this every now and then, but this becomes a conscious decision with tradeoffs when I work from home, so I cannot do it daily. I'm not immediately surrounded by conducive walking areas, so there's a threshold of effort and time commitment before reaching the better places. When I go to a workplace, there's no decision to make I just have to walk without question.
Agreed, and interestingly it’s a similar story for the Switch itself! Relative to a PS5 it’s very underpowered, yet it’s still hugely popular in large part because of the awesome Nintendo games.
