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Re:Apple's risky bet on CarPlay by pr337h4m on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:50PM (#40139551)
Why not use plus codes? They're well-integrated into Google Maps: https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/
Re:Apple's risky bet on CarPlay by makeitdouble on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @10:37PM (#40139853)
TIL.

The weird part is Maps will accept them for search, but not display the plus code except when looking at POI (randomly selecting a point on the map doesn't show it for me, I only could get that from the /pluscodes/ map)

This seems genuinely useful, but as usual we're having the chicken and egg problem to get it adopted ?

Re:Apple's risky bet on CarPlay by solardev on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:53AM (#40144452)
In mobile at least, you can touch and hold to make a red temporary POI that will show you the plus code.

But yeah, nobody uses it in the real World. If I need to share a point with someone else I'll just send them the Google Maps share URL instead, which has its own shortcode