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Stop using Apple
Your address is incorrect. You need to drop the s off of it
Ooops, thanks for pointing it out. I have corrected the post
How’s their route algorithms? Never used it for navigation
OSMAnd+ is a good app. Using openmaps. You often Ned the address of where you are going since place searches of businesses may no come up. But the navigation has been good.
I have observed no issues. Every once in a while, when choosing large targets like an airport, it’s hard to chose the right “destination” from the many available as the labels don’t always have all details.
Other than that, no issues whatsoever.
PS: to put it in context, I am a casual user who basically never remembers street names or directions so I use it often but it’s not like I am an Uber driver
Lol I used to think they scrapped the maps app entirely. Surprised it still exists. Who even uses it outside the US?
I’m not even an apple user but i use their maps as an alternative to gmaps on ddg.
I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created. I wish OSM was this upto date with their data but it has a long way to go. I think this that piece of software which needs a big dedicated team or at-least paid volunteers instead of community volunteers because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.
Mapping your neighborhood is actually a lot of fun if you use StreetComplete! Nice way to get outside and explore.
I throw a lot of shit at Google but Google Maps is the best piece of software they have ever created
Agreed but that is not really saying much considering Google’s resources and how often the fuck everything up
because there ain’t no way I am going out to volunteer for free to map out my neighbourhood accurately.
because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don’t see the benefit to you personally?
because you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or because you don’t see the benefit to you personally?
Bruh. Everything doesn’t have to be political. I simply don’t have the time, energy and willingness to learn and contribute to a project which people in my community are not even going to use. The incentive simply isn’t their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google. I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren’t simply because they don’t have dedicated teams.
Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn’t something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.
The incentive simply isn’t their for anyone when there is already a perfectly working solution—as much as I hate to say—from Google
So you enjoy corporate oversight and ads? or at least they don’t bother you enough to seek alternatives?. It’s not political, I am spelling out what you seem to be trying to avoid saying.
I wish OSM and the maps & navigation apps using it were more popular and better but they aren’t simply because they don’t have dedicated teams.
But you don’t wish it enough to contribute in any way…
Google Maps also get contributions from the community (which is much larger than OSM). So google benefits from volunteer contributions as well as their own teams mapping stuff around the world which OSM can never match. It isn’t something like Search, Drive or Photos that can be replaced by a community driven FOSS alternative. It requires huge funding.
I think you are just doubling down on this to convince yourself that it is not that you are being selfish here, you are just being smart by not choosing a losing battle you made up in your head.
Whatever helps you sleep at night :)
and a shitty one at that… DDG was good, now it’s just Bing + Apple maps which is bad on both fronts
I like ddg. I think its getting better and better. I almost never need to fall back on google search Compared to 8 years ago where i often had to.
Pretty much everyone?
Edit: D’oh, I thought this was about Google maps. My bad.
That article slurps Apple’s nutsac for having such a great moneymaking idea! Fuck ads. Tired of everything being a vessel for marketing.
Good. Enshittify to your heart’s content, until people realise that just sucking a different big tech corp’s tit is not the solution.
Serves anyone using that garbage right.
Wow they haven’t even made it good enough for me to use yet and they are already enshittifying it?
THE reason why i use apple is because I’m not subjected to ads. Is there any point using apple anymore if they’re going to inject ads? Holy shit, Time to go back to android if we’re gonna get ads and instead pay less for a phone.
You can trade your iPhone with an Android user who figured if Google is going to force developer certifications for installing apps then there is no point in using Android over iPhone and they might as well switch.
Well… Here’s hoping KDE Plasma Mobile takes off I guess…
I was going to say the same thing… there’s no point to Google android anymore either. I guess we’re all going to LineageOS.
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Year of the Linux phone!
Im just enjoying my ad free life with degoogled android
lol switching an entire phone ecosystem because there might be an ad coming to your area in the form of one single ad in a search query on one single app. bruh, LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Comaps is available for iphones :3
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/comaps/id6747180809
also for others:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.comaps.google
A little confused, is this basically the same thing as Open Street Maps, just in app form?
Yep it uses a selection of the most important data from OSM because the entire thing would be too huge to keep on your phone. You download the map in sections so region/city based but you can also just get an entire country which will be a few GB.
It can import/export bookmarks and record and import gpx tracks. Has TTS support and you can even edit things (like opening hours and stuff) if you have an OSM account.
They use OSM as source for maps, yes.
Not sure how much they add, aside from offline functionality.
Other apps add extra data sources.
I’ve looked at apps like these and weirdly it’s just map you can search through. There’s no turn by turn directions.
It very much has routing, route saving, turn by turn instructions, voice instructions and more. Idk what you mean.
I couldn’t get it to work. Is it only in Europe that works?
I dont use apple devices so i cant test it, but i thought it would be identical to the android experience.
I tried 4 of these damn things over the past few days 2 were ad filled nonsense. This looks like a reskin of something else I tried. It doesn’t have turn by turn.
Are you sure you are using the app that i linked to? Because you can clearly see in the screenshots on the app store that it has turn by turn instructions.
Comaps is a fork of organic maps but neither has ads and they are basically identical feature wise.
Turn by turn only works when you have location turned on of course.
Okay don’t turns out I had to download the maps first and then it kinda works. Voice selection isn’t working right but will likely be fixed eventually. I just need to get used to it. Thanks.
“Apple cares about your privacy”
Not from THEMSELVES, never from themselves.
Like apple maps doesn’t suck enough already?
I wish it was better because that’s the map DDG pulls up in search. Wonder if those ads are going to show in DDG sesrches now.
Nothing like free software
This was the only reason I used it.
On to the next!
I mean… maps has been kinda shitty for years!
It’s still better than Wayze trying to sell you burgers and fries at every stop sign… but you need to tap the search box like 3 fucking times to input shit, and why is that? So you have ample opportunity to see Crapple’s list of “suggestions….“
And have you noticed that you need to zoom down to AntMan scale to see the names of some businesses in a shopping center, and yet others are virtually visible from orbit? Could it be that businesses that pay Apple stick out like a sore thumb, and business that don’t virtually disappear? Nah… Fucking Apphole behavior.
It’s time to face facts, Apple stopped giving a shit about the customer years ago. Before their headquarters was literally a Bond villain’s donut you could drive through their parking lot and it was a sea of shitty rust buckets, executive parking lot underground.
I was giving serious consideration to going Android again rather then buying a 2K+ tablet… but then I need to buy a new watch and phone at the same time to have a slim chance of interoperability so it’s basically a wash.
Fuck Apple.
Unfortunately it’s the best option in Germany after Google threw a tantrum over privacy laws here. However OpenStreetMap is getting better.
Surely this time their famous design standards will be applied to their UX.
Surely.
Ive got a work iPad. There are ads in the calculator (plus a paid upgrade for like the smart pencil scribble math upgrade. Imagine paying $700 AUD for the cheapest iPad here in AUS, for a subscription fee for the calculator)
