Hello! I'm looking for a foss navigator app for my android device, but all navigator apps I've tried (OSMand, organic map) are missing a feature: when I calculate the route from point A to point B, on Google Maps a few possible routes are displayed, and then I chose the one I prefer; on other apps only one possible route is displayed, and if for any motivation I don't want to pass from a certain street or something like this, I have no other options. Is there an app (or a way on these apps) to make it calculate a few possible routes instead of just one?

thanks in advance!

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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, there isn't any FOSS project that specifically does that.
If you want to stick with FOSS you have to settle with OsmAnd or Organic Maps and force specific routes with waypoints.
If you want the possibility to choose between more than one route right after searching, a good OSM-based navigator is Magic Earth, it has nice features (like crowd-sourced traffic indications) and while not FOSS it has a good privacy policy compared to other apps.

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A privacy policy isn't the same thing as the Four Freedoms. !privacy@lemmy.ml is next door, this is !opensource@lemmy.ml.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Heavy sigh*

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

huh, I had no idea that being pro-FOSS in a FOSS community was that controversial. I guess this place really is turning into the new reddit.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People downvoted you because you deliberately chose ti ignore the first half of my answer to play the "indignated FSF extremist" when it was absolutely unnecessary. Not because people don't value FOSS and its community.
And stop playing the victimized main character because no one is buying that bs. Because THAT is something a dumb reddit user would do

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone -3 points 1 year ago

indignated FSF extremist

It's not like this is a generic unrelated lemmy community, it's literally called "open source" (with a rule specifically saying "Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology" in the sidebar). there are a million other spaces where proprietary garbage can be promoted, I don't go around those places chewing people out for doing so. You chose to come into a space called "open source" to trash open source and promote a proprietary application, the fact that you are getting upvoted for doing so is just sad imho.

Anyway, you don't seem to have anything other than childish personal attacks in response so this is where I disengage from this thread.