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Google Will Update Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps (www.cnet.com)
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[–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Some Alternatives:

Open Street Map

MapQuest

Organic Maps (Mobile)

EDIT: Added Organic Maps

EDIT: Removed Apple Maps since they've made their change.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Anything that includes public transit routing? It doesn't look like OSM or MapQuest include public transit, and I'm not seeing an option to use Apple Maps via the web browser on Android.

    For destinations I go to regularly, I can easily pull up schedules without Google maps, but if I'm going somewhere new, Google maps greatly simplifies the process of figuring out which route(s) to take.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You might need to add it to osm

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Hmm. I did find it in the OsmAnd app, but I'm very confused. I think it's just showing me trip durations, not actual schedules, and definitely not live bus data, nor any option to find routes based on a specific departure or arrival time. For the route I tested, it gave me 4 different options, all of which list a departure time of 0:00, even though it's early afternoon here.

    Digging around the other apps I use, it looks like the live transit data that I'm used to is free to access. Is there something I need to do to get that linked up?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Organic maps does

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I see the option for transit directions in the app, but I've tried a few different destinations that I've regularly visited via bus, and it only gave walking directions for all of them. I also tried the airport, which I usually get to via rail, and it says that subway navigation isn't available in my region yet.

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