It took a few months preparation but I deleted all my google accounts today, and it feels good.

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    A lot of (all?) email services will allow you to forward your mail from Gmail. My advice would be set that up, have all of them going to a specific folder, and only use your new email moving forward. No harm in allowing some email forwarding while you adjust for the next 6 to 12 months. But that way you can also immediately stop using Gmail itself.

    Gdrive unless it is really baked into your daily life in a complicated way, it’s pretty easy to replace. Lots of great services out there.

    Proton mail allowed me to export my Google Calendar over with just a few clicks. So that was pretty painless. I’m sure there are other calendar services like that. YMMV.

    Google maps is tough lol

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      For the google maps, it helps for us to contribute to Open Street Maps through recording with Mapillary or making edits in our community.

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        Is the app itself ready for prime time yet? Can I use it daily? I live in a small but major city.

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            There’s several apps to use open street map data. Organic Maps and OSMAnd to name a few. I use a bit of both along with Waze when needed.

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              I’ve tried them and prefer Magic Earth.

              Also, you can contribute to make the maps more complete with Street Complete.

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                Magic Earth is proprietary FYI. Good privacy policy and good service, only real problem I have is its not FOSS.