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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

... and/or aren't planning to go. I would love to get through Bloomington, IN without seeing the location of every Liquor store dotting my navigation screen. Can't be personalized, as I basically never visit Liquor stores.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A map that only knows my home PC, work PC, and the 2 routes in-between?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Does this exist as Open Source with OSM instead of Google?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Do you have a document or site to reference?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Anyone aware of an offline local alternative to https://fogofworld.app/ ?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Dawarich has support for this. Be aware it is under very active development and has semi-frequent breaking changes though (No data loss, just manual steps to upgrade).

For example, here's my recent trip to Austin for the Counter-Strike Major:

And with regular routing:

It technically works offline because you can record your location and load it afterwards, but I use it by ingesting my location that is tracked by Home Assistant

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (5 children)

How do you expect to get positional tracking while being offline?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Is this what people think? That you need an internet connection tion to use GPS?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why would you need an Internet connection to use GPS?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Navsats and OpenStreetMaps?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Have they never left that circle ever?

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This would actually encourage me to explore new areas of my city.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (14 children)

I've been doing exactly that with an app called Fog of World.

5 years of progress so far.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

What about Streetcomplete? You explore and help others at the same time...

https://streetcomplete.app/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Your feeling of helplessness is your best friend, savage! cranks RA2 OST

[–] [email protected] 96 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Kind of terrifying since I use maps pretty much exclusively for places I haven't been to yet, so I'm not totally unfamiliar when I go there

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

You could make it a "mode" of sorts. Like a map overlay that will temporarily cover everything you havent been to.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago

Gotta get a quest to drop a POI out there

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