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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by Scoundreller on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:42PM (#39472026)
One beef of mine with Google’s offline maps is that they’re only driving maps, and not walking/transit/cycling maps. Obviously you can kinda figure out walking paths anyway, but since I’m sometimes travelling without roaming access, it’s unfortunate.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by giantg2 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:48PM (#39473759)
I image it would be hard do transit maps if you weren't connected to get the schedule.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by Scoundreller on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:55PM (#39473847)
They already get them somehow while "online". Offline with beginning & end times and a rough idea of frequency should be good enough for local use.

Offline road maps are subject to construction/seasonal/holiday route closures/deviations too, and so is transit.

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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by giantg2 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:17PM (#39474097)
Road closure tends to be much more rare. Transit is much more variable in the US.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by steelframe on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:45PM (#39474954)
Have you tried Organic Maps for walking or cycling routes?
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by kevincox on Friday February 23, 2024 @05:00PM (#39486666)
No one walks in Mountain View or most of the US so product management doesn't understand the use case.
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