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Ok this is awesome. Good for them! I just wish their map search was as good as Google’s. But I’m willing to use them for navigation anyway.
Please don't. Just use an openstreetmaps application instead. CoMaps is pretty solid. Jumping from one private/closed source company to another is not really the best route towards privacy.
Search is fundamentally broken in all of the major OSM based apps. They are incapable of finding addresses, which is the whole point of the apps. I recently started using Vela Maps. It does use Google Maps under the hood, but it tries to minimize data sent to Google. Before that, I used Magic Earth, which was great before it was enshittified.