Re:How to Live Without Google
by pvinis on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:01AM
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Most of these are fine replacements, but some are not, and that's the reason I, and I imagine many more people, stay with google.
google maps is great. apple maps is much worse with searching, and shops etc, especially outside the US.
openstreetmap is very cool and I use it every now and then, and I wish it becomes the standard online map, but it needs more care or something, I don't know.
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Re:How to Live Without Google
by deep_attention on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:13AM
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For car navigation I use HERE WeGo (traffic info), never looked back. On foot/bike openstreetmap is the best.
Re:How to Live Without Google
by usuallymatt on Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:09PM
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Which android app do you use for OpenStreet map?
I agree but I wish "quality of results" and "quality of UI" were not intimately linked in software.
Google has NO idea how to do UI these days. To simply plot a course to one of my designated "favorite" places (i.e. probably what I need most often), I counted: FIVE taps, interspersed with staring at menus to find what to tap, before the driving directions appear. In a maps app. Frankly the quality of their mapping is the only compelling thing these days.
> openstreetmap is very cool and I use it every now and then, and I wish it becomes the standard online map, but it needs more care or something, I don't know.
So the obvious open source answer: Why not help make it good yourself! Add data!
More serious response: What do you find "missing" in OSM?