I use Here as my navigation. Thats all and it's good at it. I have no need for reviews because when i used them it didn't came out as expected. It's risk, yes, but it's worth sometimes.
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My experience is that with OSM apps, nearly each one is focused on a different thing. Which makes it hard for me to say "hey this is the best one"! For example, OsmAnd is good for a lot of things, but its poi interaction system is crappy (you have to first select a category, f.e. restaurants, and only then can you click onto individual markers on the map) and I'm not 100% convinced of its navigation feature either which has previously depicted wildly wrong time estimates for me. Magic Earth on the other hand has great navigation and seems to have more up-to-date data on some pois/buildings than OsmAnd, but isnt very good for anything other than navigation.
So I'm still searching for a map tool that could completely replace Google Maps for me.
Personally I use organic maps. FOSS, open street map based, private and offline. Doesn’t have built in reviews but links to a review service (kayak)
Maps.me has android auto too
This looks pretty promising, I wonder why no one suggested this before. Maybe because of the ads?
Think it’s a reskin of organic maps something something someone else correct me/add
Organics maps started as a fork of maps.me some .years ago. Not sure maps.me is still (partially) open source, for sure it used to be. What sucks is the streets search
I'm afraid most maps alternatives don't have a review system or when they have it's lacking reviews due to small user bases. OsmAnd had a plugin some time ago for some open review site but that stop working.
I'm using OrganicMaps and OsmAnd depending on the task, both based on openstreetmaps but neither have reviews.
HERE WeGo uses TripAdvisor, that's alright.
Mapy.cz
I use OsmAnd and Open Street Map data as well. That's crowd sourced and not under control of any company. Though, as other people pointed out, it doesn't do recommendations. It's map data, navigation and sometimes opening times, accessibility etc of a place.
I started using Organic Maps. So far all good.
I'm also trying to use Here WeGo for turn by turn navigation.
I tested all the other contenders (OSM And, Organic Maps, Magic Earth) and some seem to be best for outdoor activities (hiking, biking, OSM And), others do good for commuting (Here WeGo).
The other problem you mentioned is, that sadly few apps have this "search engine and rating" topic covered. As far as I know Apple Maps uses Yelp as backend and Google Maps it's own solution. AFAIK the others do simply not support community based annotations. Only addition or moderation on the groundlaying openstreetmap data.
If I need to search for a location and it's opening times, I have no good substitute, yet.
Apple uses TripAdvisor if I'm correct
Looked it up. You are correct.