Hi all, I recently was on holiday and needed maps for the hire car. Usually I use Maps.Me as I like the fact that you can download the maps in advance and that they have the hotels from Booking.com (thereby increasing the chance that I can easily find my hotel).
This time however I forgot the phone mount :-(. The car did have Android Auto so, due to my insistence to have visibility of a screen when using GPS (audio alone is not enough), we ended up using this. For those who don't know Android Auto it is built in to the car's entertainment system - you just bring along your smartphone to connect in. Google Maps is the default and this is what we ended up using (pre-downloading regions before we set off). So yeah, on this holiday Google won*. We did continue with MapsMe for the hiking parts as this is where OSM excelled. My question is: Are there any OSM apps that can be used with Android Auto? It seemed like a great in car solution and no doubt more car manufacturers will add this in the coming years. Thanks, *Rob* * P.S. We got bad driving results from both Google Maps and MapsMe during the holiday. MapsMe tried to route us down a private road, whilst Google wanted us to do a long detour because it did not know about a road. I think OSM can win this game but don'e want it to slip behind as Android Auto get's rolled out to more cars.
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