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
Fuck I just started using it because of how horribly shit google maps has become
- LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago- 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 
- 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. 
 
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 citiesBakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Supposedly comaps has carplay support as of like 2 months ago, according to a page on their website
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Damn I need to try this
treeko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll look into it