As I said in the last stream, I’ve had some troubles being as private now that I’m on android. The main issue for me was that I had previously relied on Apple Maps for private routing. Initially, the only serious map applications to consider were Waze and Google Maps. I knew about OpenStreetMap, but the map in my area had very little detail, so I went with Waze, as they said they didn’t share data with Google.
That was until I heard that anyone can edit OpenStreetMap. I created an account and began to make contributions using my local knowledge, correcting roads and adding businesses I know of. I’ve even started to do some surveying today. It’s now good enough that I can use it for basic purposes, but I’m going to keep improving it.
Even though I still supplement with Waze, once it’s good enough, I plan commit to Organic Maps (which has a much more user friendly UI than OsmAnd) for fully offline navigation.