Where I live, Google Maps is the only mapping option.
Is there anyway to download the route as .ics to add to Proton Calendar?
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To the best of my understanding a “.ics” file only contains event data such as time, date, title, description, location, reminders, etc. Your mapping software is responsible for getting you a route not the .ics file. If you wanted to use OSM for sure, convert the address to GPS coordinates with something like https://gps-coordinates.net and use those as the location in the calendar event.
That conversion isn’t accurate at all, at least in the cities I have been. I used to trust OSM a lot, but it led me to wrong places a few times. I use Organic Maps, which is based on OSM, for general navigation, but I have to rely on Google Maps for finding precise locations. I use web interface only, for google maps, but OSM can be a pain in the butt, especially if others are dependent on me navigating them.
Odd, to me wherever I have been Google Maps is vast areas of uniformly coloured nothing only whereas OSM has details of every house, every footpath,…
maybe because some of us are living around those places.
If osm information around you isn’t accurate enough, you can always easily complete it for you and everybody else: streetcomplete
This is the case for me too. OSM has so much more detail compared to Google Maps, it’s my go to for actual navigation
Google maps I just use for public transport, and local business discovery.
Odd, i have always found that method to work correctly. If OSM has a POI for the place i use that first, but if nothing else i do it the way i mentioned and have had success with it. Then i add the location to OSM when i go their.
Since Google makes money off of you using Maps, and makes third-party apps pay a fee for using their API, I don’t think they have an incentive to let you download navigation data to use it into another company’s software
A couple of quick questions that might get you a functional answer:
- Do you need a specific route saved (such as routing around an area) or just the end location?
- Are you sharing the calendar event with a different account?
- Are you on Android or iOS?
- What part of the world are you in?
If you tell us where you live (roughly) maybe we can find an alternative that you could not find
