Comment on Google maps adding sponsored detours

randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The one big draw of Google maps for me is the real-time traffic info. I don’t think that anything else had the ability to gather the same amount of info (except maybe Apple?)

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  • w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Waze. Google Maps literally gathers a large part of it’s traffic real time data from Waze (which they also own).

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe, but I suspect that Waze has a small fraction of the gmaps user base, so if it has compatible traffic info, it’s because it draws on Google’s data.

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      • w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Google pulls from Waze, but Waze isn’t allowed to pull data from Google.

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• ratman150@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like osmand for off-grid motorcycle type stuff but I’ve found it to be somewhat useless for final mile navigation especially ironically in the city. I still use it as it’s awesome and allows pre-planned offline routes but I also still use gmaps as well. When I drove trucks for a living I found that the Garmin (truck specific but buy what you need) GPS to be quite amazing and will probably buy one of those for my car someday.

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• rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does organic maps work without downloading maps? I don't really need nav, but sometimes I need to know how to get somewhere. I can't do that with Osmand.

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• hellequin67@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Both great ideas but they’re not available to android auto, I’d need an alternative that can load in android auto

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