AFAIK "Android Auto" is actually "google Auto" and simply an app that connects to compatible screens provided by car manufacturers that are in bed with the goog (sometimes in an open relationship complemented with the same from the fruit company). As actually running the app requires selling your soul to the goog I haven't really experimented a lot with it. This is distinct from a car dock mode or similar in which you can typically launch osmand, mapsme or whatever you want.
With other words no simple way of replacing the goog in such vehicles (it is likely hackable, but in the same vein will probably cost you your warranty on the car and so on, so not worth it). Am 23.09.2018 um 14:44 schrieb Rob Nickerson: > Hi all, > > I recently was on holiday and needed maps for the hire car. Usually I > use Maps.Me as I like the fact that you can download the maps in > advance and that they have the hotels from Booking.com (thereby > increasing the chance that I can easily find my hotel). > > This time however I forgot the phone mount :-(. The car did have > Android Auto so, due to my insistence to have visibility of a screen > when using GPS (audio alone is not enough), we ended up using this. > For those who don't know Android Auto it is built in to the car's > entertainment system - you just bring along your smartphone to connect > in. Google Maps is the default and this is what we ended up using > (pre-downloading regions before we set off). > > So yeah, on this holiday Google won*. We did continue with MapsMe for > the hiking parts as this is where OSM excelled. > > My question is: Are there any OSM apps that can be used with Android > Auto? It seemed like a great in car solution and no doubt more car > manufacturers will add this in the coming years. > > Thanks, > *Rob* > > * P.S. We got bad driving results from both Google Maps and MapsMe > during the holiday. MapsMe tried to route us down a private road, > whilst Google wanted us to do a long detour because it did not know > about a road. I think OSM can win this game but don'e want it to slip > behind as Android Auto get's rolled out to more cars. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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