As I try to continue writing about various OpenStreetMap-based navigation applications, I’m really struggling to write something about Scout.

It is a weird application.

It is a combination of a navigation engine (offline download costs money), but it only works in the US, ignores service roads, and does not show buildings. It has a chat built in, but I have 5 chat clients already. It supports sending your location to other people, but these other people must have Scout installed as well, and you can’t just say “here, watch me go somewhere”, you MUST provide your destination (unlike Glympse). You don’t see POIs unless you search for them, and the POI database may not have correct location for the addresses. Since there are no buildings (and no satellite imagery), you can’t see you are directed to a shed instead of Walmart Superstore.

Has anybody here used Scout and thinks it is the best thing since sliced bread?