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This still causes you to have a Google account and probably use it for other purposes too, during some of which you will see ads.
Unfortunately this seems all to plausible. Despite Firefox and ad blocking in general, there's very few services that rival Google's Android and (in my opinion) none that can honestly rival Maps at present.
I rarely use Google Maps (you really should check out OpenStreetMap and OsmAnd), but I use Android and YouTube a lot.
Can you tell/show me how/where I can use OSM as a replacement for Google Maps. I've given OsmAnd a try and found it lacking.
I ran a few tests such as searching for my local library. Unfortunately I had to use the exact wording ("Stadtbibliothek") rather than simpler, more common wording ("Bibliothek"). The Google map found it immediately. Similarly I searched for a local Café, which I easily found in Google Maps (despite not capitalising anything). Meanwhile the business is not present in OSM, despite being the most popular Café in my town.
Additionally navigation doesn't work for me for regions I haven't downloaded. How would I go about getting it to work for navigation to places further afield that I haven't downloaded?
OsmAnd is great. You should try Organic Maps. I've had better luck with the search.
I had similar results to you. In my case the deal breaker was navigation, because I need to be able to make changes to the route on the fly which these apps don't allow. In fact, you need to tap like ten times through menus to finish a trip and search for something else.
Anscheinend funktioniert "Bücherei" als Suchbegriff, "Bibliothek" nur, wenn das im Namen vorkommt.
OSM-Daten sind genau so gut, wie Freiwillige sie gemacht haben. :/ In meiner Gegend sehr vollständig, aber das liegt auch daran, dass ich daran mitgewirkt habe.
OsmAnd ist grundsätzlich eine Offline-Kartenanwendung, d.h. du musst die Karten von den Gebieten, die dich interessieren, herunterladen. Dafür, dass sie "on-demand" heruntergeladen werden wie bei Google Maps, haben sie wohl nicht die Ressourcen. Ist aber auch besser für die Privatsphäre.
Leider ein Beispiel, warum der Ansatz von OSM zwar gut ist, aber das derzeitige Produkt leider nicht auf dem Niveau des Platzhirsches ist.
Ist bei Google Maps grundsätzlich an vielen Stellen genauso, aber die User-Basis ist vielfach größer.
Leider noch ein Beispiel, wie die Funktionalität leidet. Für eine anstehende, längere Fahrt in den Urlaub müsste ich also das Kartenmaterial quer durch Europe runterladen. Das ist leider für mich nicht praktikabel und wieder ein Punkt, der den etablierten Marktführer weiter auf dieser Position verweilen lässt.
Bitte nicht falsch verstehen; ich würde gerne weniger auf Google-Dienste zurückgreifen und tue das an vielen Stellen (Mail, Cloud-Storage, Kalender, Browser) auch erfolgreich. Gerade Maps hat aber einfach keine ansatzweise gleichwertige Alternative, die nicht gleich zum Hobby wird.
In der Zeit vor digitaler Technik musste man sich auch Straßenkarten der Gegenden, durch die man fährt, kaufen. Es gibt in OsmAnd auch "reine Straßenkarten" im Gegensatz zu "Standardkarten", bei den ersten sind weniger Details drin und sie sind dafür weniger groß, z.B. für ganz Deutschland anscheinend 2440.80 MB.
Ich mach Google Maps am Smartphone deutlich seltener auf als OsmAnd. Google Maps verwende ich vor allem im Browser wegen der 3D-Ansicht.
Ich bin alt genug, um der Stolze Besitzer eines ADAC-Straßenatlasses zu sein; mittlerweile leider hoffnungslos veraltet :-)