Chiming in to say you can use Wayz its owned by google but you dont need google services installed. Basically googlemaps. Not foss though.

I used to use GmapsVW to browse places and send to OSM. So it didn’t matter about missing osm data. But I keep google maps in a private profile (butay swap to wayze) as its got traffic updates and is much easier to use in a pinch.

I thought MS owned that or bought it. 🤔

See my reply and the one by bladefederation.

Not according to graphene documentation. From what I remember it’s because Obtaniuam can’t check the signature of the APK. There is app verifier (recommended by obtanium) but it dosnt work with many apps as they don’t publish the signature. So you can’t verify the APK is what its supposed to be.

FDroid builds the app and signs it. While this may intorduce risk of Fdrpid are doing something dodgey the many eyes and build logs should pick it up.