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OsmAnd, mobile app for navigation and maps. Offline, based on OSM, can do anything. I use it for checking out and bookmarking places, finding POIs and pubic transport stations, routing (especially for bike and foot), measuring distances, and so on. It can also show and record tracks, do car navigation, edit OSM points, and more stuff that I don't use. Pro/plus/full version free on FDroid
It also works really well for routing on water. One feature I really like is being able to specify the dimensions of your boat and then having it take that into account when calculating a route.
I want to like this, but because there's no GTFS/public transport timetables, it makes it kinda impossible to use it to get around cities that publish their transport data.
PT is the one thing I'm still stuck on Google maps for. I REALLY want an open source alternative.
The comments below say "local transit app", but I don't get it - those could be proprietary and pretty invasive. So instead, I use the "undesired" maps in the browser. Both for when public transit arrives and for more up-to-date information on businesses.
Yeah, it's a shame because some of those OSM-based ones are really close to being perfect. It just seems like it's really difficult for the open source devs to reconcile OSM data with GTFS and timetables for some reason.
Often the "local app" is basically a proprietary wrapper around Google maps.
For public transit routing, I usually use the app of the local provider. But especially (not only) for Germany, Öffi is an open source alternative for them, that uses their APIs, I think.
Magic Earth is spotty on public transit, but it does have it, at least. And it is based on OSM. I usually just use my local transit app for accurate timetables, anyway.