"We aren't a monopoly"
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2024
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Best Map out there.
Wait are we talking about this one?
If so, I just looked it up...I mean, its there.
It wasn't last night. They put it back up due to backlash
I didn't know about Organic Maps so I installed it for the first time. I registered to openstreetmaps and added 5 places. This is great πΈ
Welcome aboard! Whatβs nice is that your changes are implemented quickly.
Yeah, it's great to help contribute like that, I live in a really small town so the map was quite out of date, so I patched it up. OSM is slowly becoming a legitimate competitor with Google Maps and Apple Maps in terms of data quality and Google is cowering in fear that a libre, ad-free app will be far better than their closed-source, ad-infested, data-selling app.
I'm fed up with Google (& other huge companies) so I'm totally with openstreetmaps! I'll add more info a little by little. Thanks for your contributions!
It's addicting. I mapped my entire city
Also check out StreetComplete! It's an app that gamifies adding information to OSM
Thanks! Added it to Obtanium π
I recently started a trek to de-googleify it's going to be a long road.
I pulled down all the big free map contenders.
They'll all, without a doubt, will get me to the grocery store down the road.
They're all pretty decent at obeying one-way streets and u-turn limits.
More mixed results on business hours.
Most of them start having trouble on really long distance trips.
Many are missing creature comforts like multi-stop planning, I'm not sure which if any support dynamic remapping due to traffic.
The ones I were playing with did not provide me lane guidance on which lanes go left and right.
If Google maps and Waze stopped working tomorrow I could still use most of the free-ish street map variants, but I would miss a lot of features.
While you have to look elsewhere to do it, yelp or a browser answer the hours question.
That's a damn good review from my point of view, thanks!
Dang I really called it
Yeah this seems like the most likely scenario, sad gg. Break up the monopolies
I haven't heard of it before, but if Google bans it they must be doing something right.
I'll check it out.
Same. Though I can't seem to find a way to show the advertised bike & hiking paths.
So, why is organic maps hidden with the default anti features of f-droid? Which of these that have allowed my other installs does organic maps not comply with?
None of these look like something I'd want to turn off!
Droid-ify showed it for me, which imo is the superior F-Droid client anyway.
Non free network service. Organic maps uses the organic maps CDN to download maps. Which is not a free (free as in freedom) service.
You can read more here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/app.organicmaps.yml
For more information on anti features read here: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/
Thanks!
Seems a bit silly. I think warning would work here.
Most people don't care IMHO and it ain't high risk lol
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