Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app

treeko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you don’t need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).

  If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It’s unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it’s not Google or Apple, and no ads.

  I don’t do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.

  I wish we had better alternatives or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable cities

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  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website

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    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn I need to try this

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  • treeko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll look into it

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t use maps often but what’s been going wrong in Google maps? I know whatever Uber/Lyft was using was having a hard time keeping up with local changes (bridges being shut down for months would stay on every driver’s directions)

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  • treeko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s still accurate for directions, but search results and map viewing have gone to shit because of google accepting money to highlight certain businesses - taking up huge chunks of the map with their square icons

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I uninstalled it when it told me to turn left at the Wendy’s™ instead of a fucking street name. After I missed my turn and got to my destination late, I looked it up and the place it was talking about was visually obscured by another building so I couldn’t have possibly known where to turn. Fuck that noise.

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