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Nice. And then soon it’ll be “watch this add to take the fastest route”.
Then “subscribe for an add free experience” without subscription you get the add, as well as navigation that requires you to drive to a detoured location and take a picture of said location before continuing on to your destination (or yet another detour add, if the trip is long enough).
Look at us, peak civilization here.
/s
don’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
Or when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
Promptly killing off the old version
Please drink your confirmation can now
The map in my head will be deemed content theft because it cuts into Google’s profits.
I’d like to use this opportunity to promote Organic Maps, yet again
:)
+1, also recommend StreetComplete alongside it. Makes it easy to add data to OSM, in many cases (parks, etc) this data can be made extremely detailed.
For instance, my first use case was adding house numbers around my neighborhood to OSM, because I couldn’t search for my address on Organic Maps
Does this support Android Auto? That’s the only reason I use maps.
Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance and Android Auto
On their “about page”
I think it does, yes. At least it does support CarPlay on iOS, so I guess the functionality on Android is also there.
I’m pretty sure I did see something pretty recently about Android auto support.
Personally, I prefer to use it without being connected.
I do like that it’s available offline, but does it have live traffic if you’re online? Waze has informed me about many a traffic jam and helped me circumvent them. Plus temporary road closures in case of big accidents, etc.
Edit: Ay, it’s Estonian! Always cool to see something come out of my tiny home country.
I don’t think that is something that it has yet, It’s possible that they could be working on something like that though. If you don’t find anything, It would be worth a suggestion for sure.
Live traffic would require tracking everyone like Google does.
Can be handled anonymously but then how much do you trust the server?
It should also be opt-in
Well, guess I need to look into more Google alternatives. OpenStreetMaps most likely.
While not FOSS, the closest thing we have to a drop-in replacement would be Magic Earth. It uses openstreetmap data, supports fully offline usage, has satellite images (only online though) and best of all, no tracking or telemetry.
It’s it better than organic maps?
It has a better car navigation interface and some nice features like traffic amd live events data, but it really looks like it’s update much, if any at all. Organic Maps is a little more barebone, but it constatly gets new features
I significantly prefer it for car navigation, it seems to always pick ‘more sensible’ routes than Organic Maps. Also the live traffic is very nice to have.
I prefer Organic Maps when I’m on foot, ie. walking through the city or hiking. Imo it feels less cluttered when you just want to look at a map.
Edit: Another big plus for Magic Earth is transit support. It’s not as good as Google Maps, but it’s certainly better than nothing.
People arent actually thaat tolerant to this cancer. If they arent careful people will switch.
OrganicMaps (or Osmand) is all i need usually. Search is kind of bad sometimes and obviously no live traffic data, but if you dont drive a car, the latter one at least is irrelevant.
I’ve tried Osmand and my only complaint is that you need to tap and access too many menus to set up and/or exit navigation mode. Last time I tried it was last year, not sure if that’s changed
Havent used osmand in a while so i cant say, but with organicmaps its pretty simple. Just select from/to and press start. It also has proper support for TTS now and android auto i believe (dont actually know what that does).
One thing i love is being able to enter lots of intermediate stops for a route which makes it reroute automatically.
I might try that, thanks for letting me know :)
Yeah, I used it a couple years ago, and for walking especially it seemed really cool, since it has all sorts of extra data like slopes and benches or whatever. But there are a whole ton of settings everywhere, which is cool that you can customise everything but also a bit of a mess. Definitely more for power users it seems.
Organic maps and Street complete
Profit-seeking has ruined innovation and killed us all.
What do you mean? Can’t you see all those innovations in the ads and tracking industry?
Yes! Dozens of new surveillance techniques have been invented, and new content formats have been created to make people even more stupid. Moreover, efforts to add advertisements to artificial intelligence are still ongoing, stay tuned!
Apple Maps is great now. Fuck google maps I never use it anymore.
i have noticed too, apple maps is absolutely superior to google. when we are navigating somewhere with gf, she uses apple maps with no issues while i can’t find shit with google maps…can’t remember this being a problem in the past.
Ehhhhh I think Apple Maps is hit or miss depending on your area. In urban centers? I think Apple Maps gives superior directions.
In more rural areas? I think Google wins.
I haven’t tested out incident avoidance with Apple Maps as I haven’t used it since it guided me to the wrong address three years ago…
Maybe it’s worth a second try
I live in as rural as it gets FL and it’s yet to wrong me in the last fee years.
Reminder that you can turn off auto updates in the play store settings.
Also Magic Earth and Here We Go are decent alternatives.
Both of the alternatives you listed are spyware. Stick with Organic maps ideally from F-droid
Google ruined their search and is now onwards to the other remaining working products. They are so dumb.
This is the worst example of enshittification I’ve seen from Google. I think it’s time to start considering iPhone.
Or better yet fossdroid. Iphones are just as bad
No.
Weirdly The Most Infuriating Part Of This Story For Me Was The Twitter Post Someone Wrote Entirely Like This
I’d really hate if they fuck up Maps since there are no alternatives on the same level but since it’s the last of their services I depend on, I could degoogle for good.
I have been using OsmAnd today to get ready to leave Gmaps because of this news. It was better then I remembered and my number 1 peeve was no lane preference display (for highway driving specifically), but that works now too!
I’ll miss traffic predictions and live traffic rerouting :-( Sigh, guess I’ll pay that price. I #&@$ing hate distractions during driving, and now they think I’ll allow my own phone to do that? Google is rotten to the core and the road way from them is annoying and boring. Buckle up y’all. Bring magazines.
I’ll miss traffic predictions and live traffic rerouting
That’s the only feature I’m using it for. The car’s built-in navigation is sufficient for “dumb” routing.
OsmAnd is pretty good. It’s not as easy as GMaps, but that’s understandable. If we all use and support alternatives more, we’ll likely spur their development.
You can use Magic Earth for those.
It is proprietary so it is hard to trust it
you think that open source software is magically trustworthy?
It only has the potential to be trustworthy
Organic maps works pretty well. You just need to actually contribute to OSM
Promoted pins in navigation are not new – they let people see relevant ads for businesses like gas stations, restaurants, and stores along their route. To avoid driver distraction, these ads do not pop up, expand only if they’re tapped on, and disappear quickly after a short time.
from the correction in the article
That’s not really better. This kind of behavior is why I left Google maps years ago
Glad my Garmin doesn’t do that… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Weird… it rendered fine on initial post… same issue as reddit I guess.
