Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour

H0neyc0mb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OpenStreetMaps clients also works and are available everywhere

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  • zippythezigzag@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thats what I use now

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  • anas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any recommendations for an iOS client?

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    • Ldwghmmr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Organic Maps ist nice. It‘s a fork of Maps.Me before they added all the bloat, I think.

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• zewm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sorry but as long as Apple Maps rely on and force you to install the Yelp app for reviews, I’m never using it.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re moving away from that, only using Yelp for backfill when they have no data. There is instead a “thumbs up/down” set of buttons (because the 5-star system is uselessly Boolean anyway). Contribute to the ecosystem by rating places using this, and eventually it will reach parity with Google.

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• Zron@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bought iPhone last year.

  Tried Apple Maps the first week.

  Put in address to friend’s new condo building.

  Took me to a parking lot behind a grocery store next to the building, and then acted like I could drive through an old wooden fence to get to the condos.

  5/10 I only had to drive to the other end of the block to find the only entrance to the property.

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  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At one point Google Maps moved my whole apartment building/address three streets from where it should be. It was wrong for months even though I reported it when I had to keep telling delivery people that got misdirected because they used it to navigate. Anecdotal evidence etc.

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LOL

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• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only thing Apple Maps lacks now is a Waze-like ability to report hazards, speed-traps, road closures etc. along with the active user base required to crowd source the datapoints.

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  • benark@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can report hazards, speed checks, and crashes in Apple Maps.

    support.apple.com/en-us/105024

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    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh, TIL - thanks!

      I’ve updated my original comment to reflect this.

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