You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about you

Re:You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about... by VladTheImplier on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:34AM (#16686451)

Ye, it is not as smooth in scrolling as GMaps, though more feature rich. If this bothers you, there is an app called Maps.Me. it is minimalistic, has smooth scrolling like Gmaps but not as feature rich as OSMand and has a non-free (as in freedom) map data service behind it.

But if performance of osmand bothers you, this is the place to go.

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Re:You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about... by crtasm on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:31AM (#16686967)

First I've heard of Maps.Me, did a quick test of the adverts+binaries removed fork on F-Droid ('Maps') and it looks good.

>non-free (as in freedom) map data service

As in, it's all OSM data but not directly from their servers? Or is maps.me adding extra some extra info to the displayed map?

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Re:You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about... by rmc on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:37AM (#16687310)

When you download map data from Maps.me, it loads them from the maps.me servers. But that's to be expected. openstreetmap.org isn't going to be hosting those files. Maps.me also includes some hotels from booking.com

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Re:You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about... by crtasm on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:25AM (#16687585)

Thanks, I see the hotels now - they're also the first thing on the discover page (binoculars icon).

I wonder if OSMand could make use of maps.me code to speed up their rendering - or perhaps it's not possible without cutting out information/features.

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