Acastus VS qwantmaps

I use https://github.com/gjedeer/Acastus From Fdroid

actually, now that you ask about it and I try it, sharing directly to osmand isn't the best solution, as osmand handles shared addresses kinda weird. after a little research and experimentation, I found using an intermediary app called Acastus, which you share the address to, and it converts the address to GPS coordinates for osmand. it asks for location permission for using the address of your current location but works fine for this case if you deny it.

Acastus-Photon (version 1.26): An online address/POI search for navigation apps

Acastus Photon translates a postal adress to a geographic cordinate that can be shared.

I found https://www.qwant.com/maps pretty decent and comparable to Google Maps, especially for the ease to switch between pedestrian/biking/car directions. They don't have an app though.

Organic Maps OsmAnd Qwant Maps

You could try Qwant Maps for online and as application Organic Maps.

https://www.qwant.com/maps nice front-end. https://openstreetmap.org The boring techy website. https://www.where2.cash Simple web-app for BCH merchants.

It is a reduced version of Apple Maps, so only looking and navigation, unfortunatelly. I'd recommend Qwant Maps for that.

If you go to "edit" mode on the openstreetmap.org website, you'll see aerial/satellite imagery too, licensed for free from bing and others. AFAIK, that license is only for editors, thus they can't have it on the main website (and that wouldn't be a showcase of OSM data anyway).

I agree it's a bit of a shame that the openstreetmap.org doesn't do a better job of showcasing the wealth of data, and it could be more user friendly. There are a lot of other websites that provide the same data, represented differently. https://osmand.net/map for instance. https://www.qwant.com/maps has vector maps and is quite good too!