Comment on Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps?
chris@l.roofo.cc 5 days ago
The biggest problem is scale. You need enough people to use it to even be remotely useful. Google has the movement data for so many phones that the can detect traffic problem only through the phones moving more slowly. Then there is waze where people actively add data. Even if there was an app that had the same functionality you wouldn’t get any benefit if you are the only in a 100km radius.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Waze is also owned by google.
chris@l.roofo.cc 5 days ago
I know. I was just talking about the amount of data that is available that is hard to reproduce in the FOSS world.