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I recently had a problem with data on my phone, so part way through a long car trip I had to use OSMAnd over Android Auto. Normally I only use that when hiking.
by Symbiote 3y ago
I recently had a problem with data on my phone, so part way through a long car trip I had to use OSMAnd over Android Auto. Normally I only use that when hiking.
It was wonderful! All the roads had high contrast with the background, so in a dense and unfamiliar city "in 500m turn left onto Smith Street" was so much easier! With a brief glance at the screen I could see how many streets there were, and they were labelled with their names. It isn't perfect, but it showed how bad Google Maps had become.
I used it for the rest of the trip.
Google had white-on-beige for streets, so the displayed map was essentially useless. The new colours look like a small improvement.
Edit: I tried to find a screenshot of OSMAnd, but nothing looks like what I saw in the car. I don't have a car to check, it was only a rental. Maybe it was like this picture in the documentation: https://osmand.net/docs/user/navigation/auto-car/#map-appearance https://osmand.net/docs/user/navigation/auto-car/#map-appear... but I thought I had it in light mode too.