CoMaps is definitely what you want. The search isn't the best, but the map design is better than Google's design which even at high zoom levels refuses to show many POIs and hides most of everything. CoMaps shows all POI possible without looking cluttered

OsmAnd is more for power users, it is slow and ugly but can do anything. I use it for bike routing with the external BRouter app, and it is far better than all other bike nav, but a bit of a pain.

HERE WeGo, but it's only an alternative in terms of navigation.

Use OsmAnd more. It's not hard to learn basic map and navigation... Also, what do you want to do with your map? That's the relevant screenshot, my friend.

(Of course there are drawbacks to OsmAnd as there are to many map app ... but you did not actually show one.)

CoMaps is much cleaner. Not as much functionality as Osmand, but it's easier to use.

I did OSMand and CoMaps for about a year. Got so sick or having to look up addresses on search, use an online tool to convert addresses to coordinates, and then having no traffic information in the app.

Both app systems are almost there but it was too much friction even for me.

Solution? CoMaps for everyday, gmaps in private space on Grapheme for when I need to not be hassled with the above annoyances

Do people not like Organic Maps anymore? I used that for a long while but none of the people on here seem to recommend it. I will admit, it did handle street addresses poorly to certain locations. But it was much better than OsmAnd.

CoMaps is really neat, and is superior to Google Maps for me because you can download offline maps, meaning you can still view it without a signal. It has a slick UI and is even available on (desktop) Linux (better mobile Linux support is being worked on)

Don't change the settings from defaults and it won't look like this.

You've specifically changed the profile from default or adjusted settings for one of them to give extra highlight to the roads.
That, or you've changed the theme from default.

Besides CoMaps, only other Google Map alternative that works close to it is Mapquest. Its not as private but it gets the job done and works suprisingly well.

I think OSMand is just fuggly on porpouse - as somebody else said COmaps is a lot better

Yeah, go with CoMaps. It has less features than OsMand, but in return you get a user friendly UX/UI.

The main important thing that these other maps alternatives don't do good enough for me is to have enough live-ish updates of changing conditions and status of things happening in an erea, this is only something thst I think will happen if it hits a critical mass like with Google maps and its ability to know stuff from googling.

I don't think I'm gonna step back to what are just fancier looking paper maps on my phone just because I don't like google. an alternative to me needs to replace Google's situational awareness, not merely its navigation.

Is there a way to make this happen? Like to me Google maps feels like a geography based portal into Google search that happens to also do the useful thing of navigation, I'd want some way for these maps alternatives to have information in them compiled from search indexes somehow.

Neither CoMaps nor Organic maps do that. I had osmand downloaded and removed it, probably because it looked like that.

OSMand is clearly made for hiking and other sports. Pretty much a must have. I use it all the time.

Certainly not for driving though. For example it considers every trail as a road, and tell you to take a left when really right is a tiny dirt road.
They should remove the car option to avoid more confusion.

If you're in Vietnam, there is also KBlack offline navigation.

It's a pretty young project but looks very clean from the screenshots. I've never used it as I'm in another part of the world.