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Re:Kagi Search for Everyone by threetonesun on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:18PM (#50385293)
Not the OP but one thing I've noticed in my own town is locations that have moved still showing up at their old (and new) location, and sometimes the places that moved into the old locations not showing up at all. I tend to be fine with it for general geography but not for searching for places in an unfamiliar location.
Re:Kagi Search for Everyone by blackearl on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:33PM (#50385461)
would love the ability to give kagi a general location to use rather than whatever it is they use now. results for things like restaurants or events can be anywhere from a few towns over to halfway across the country so I often have to search again with !g or my specific location
Re:Kagi Search for Everyone by SparkyMcUnicorn on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:49PM (#50385641)
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Re:Kagi Search for Everyone by anal_reactor on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:47PM (#50387124)
Yes, Google Maps is becoming so frustrating:

1. Navigation makes pointless detours.

2. The "rotate the map back to north-up" button doesn't work.

3. "You're looking at Barcelona and asked for restaurants? I know a few, in Tokyo"

4. Half of navigation window is useless UI elements I cannot hide.

I've been trying mapy.cz for a while because they were fantastic for tourism purposes, but they're locking more and more features behind a paywall and I'm not sure I want to pay for that. The killer features of Google Maps are the POIs, reviews, photos, Street View, and public transport planning. I cannot really switch to another map app without having those.

Re:Kagi Search for Everyone by monk_grilla on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:20PM (#50386508)
90% of my maps usage happens on my phone, so an iOS app is my top need to give it a proper try.

I guess the biggest problem is and will always be the quality of data. The reason I can't use CoMaps much is because OSM just doesn't have the same accuracy and recency of data on businesses and POIs in my area as compared to Google/Apple.

Re:Kagi Search for Everyone by ufmace on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:31PM (#50387820)
As a happy 2.5-year Kagi subscriber, my biggest missing pieces on Kagi Maps are:

1. Transit. I'm in NYC, and Google Maps does a great job of showing the MTA, trains and busses. Every route, all the stations, which trains stop there and when, even where the entrances are. Kagi Maps has no train routes or layers. There's stations, most of them at least, but it's basically the Wikipedia entry for that station. No up-to-date info or routes.

2. Mobile apps. At least half of the time, my maps use is an Android intent for address or directions, which only an app can answer. And the only really good way to get your location and see what's around you.

I don't really notice latency at all personally, but fixing those things might bring my Kagi Maps usage from 0% to like 50%+.

I know, it's probably a pain in the butt to integrate with the transit systems of hundreds of cities for up-to-date info, but OSM does at least have the stations and routes. Not much point trying to beat the official MTA app in functionality, but something is better than nothing.

It's also weirdly hard to get to. Why isn't it an option in the main list of Kagi things? To get there from the Kagi homepage, I have to click on search options, then maps.

Re:Kagi Search for Everyone by hedora on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:32PM (#50387828)
If I am searching a map, it is for one of three things:

1) navigation

2) give me more info about this business that I tapped on

3) reviews; find related businesses, yelp style

I cannot figure out how to do any of those things with your UI.

Ideally, for (1), it’d let me choose to open in organic maps (reliably works at all) or apple maps (better when it works, which is rare offline, even with offline maps turned on) on my phone.

This might he fantasy land, but if it could send the location to BMW’s app, then that’d be awesome too. (The bmw app can send the location on to my car.)