Re: Magic Earth app

VanguardLH wrote on Tue, 6 Aug 2024 00:25:00 -0500 :

"Magic Earth uses OpenStreetMap data"
Well, you could just use the OsmAnd app.

The OP doesn't appear to be technical so this solution may be too much.

1. The problem with the Google Play Store is you need a login/passwd.
2. Sure, you can get the APK off of a mirror - but it takes knowledge.
3. Better to give the OP a way to get the APK w/o a login/passwd needed.

One way to do that is to use any computer or phone browser to get the APK
but it seems to only be on Google Play, Amazon, Huawei & AppGallery.
 <https://www.magicearth.com/>

I'm not familiar with the latter three, but here's a link which it gave me.
 <https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Earth-Navigation-and-Maps/dp/B077XTY4F9/>
 <https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C100134401>

Me?

I'd download OSMAnd Plus (actually the free OSMAnd~) on F-Droid instead:
 <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/>

The OP needs to be told that with just GPS and without cellular data, the
free adfree OSMAnd~ (aka OSMAnd Plus) will navigate just fine w/o Internet.

It won't do traffic but without Internet, the OP wouldn't get traffic
anyway, but the OSMAnd~ address lookup (aka points of interest) database
sucks compared to Google Map's lookup.

We could also explain to the OP that Google Maps has an offline capability,
which I've tested in the past, but it was a PITA and I think it requires a
Google Account to do it - but if the OP has a google account, they can use
the Google Maps offline if they know where they're going to be going.

Yeah, I know. TMI. But that's what I'd do if I were the OP as I care that
everyone who asks a question on this newsgroup gets a good answer to it.