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[–] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fuck I just started using it because of how horribly shit google maps has become

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If you don't need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).

    If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It's unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it's not Google or Apple, and no ads.

    I don't do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.

    I wish we had better alternatives or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable cities

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I don't use maps often but what's been going wrong in Google maps? I know whatever Uber/Lyft was using was having a hard time keeping up with local changes (bridges being shut down for months would stay on every driver's directions), they'd switch to Google to get an accurate map

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago

    It’s still accurate for directions, but search results and map viewing have gone to shit because of google accepting money to highlight certain businesses - taking up huge chunks of the map with their square icons

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I uninstalled it when it told me to turn left at the Wendy’s™ instead of a fucking street name. After I missed my turn and got to my destination late, I looked it up and the place it was talking about was visually obscured by another building so I couldn’t have possibly known where to turn. Fuck that noise.

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