362
Magic Earth: Privacy friendly maps with turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. (www.magicearth.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
103 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

As soon as Organic Maps can route better, I'll switch back to it for driving. Magic Earth is my current tool. For routing and traffic shaping, it's as good as Waze. The driving / routing map (for me) is better than Waze or Google maps. I desperately want Organic Maps or OSM to work better.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What problems have you faced with organic maps? I have used it have a dozen times and had no problems. Does it not find the best path?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Organic maps is OK and will get you to where you need to be, but routing is odd. It'll sit you in the worst traffic and doesn't know about road closures etc.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Usually an Any app that knows traffic situation, knows it from your (and other users) location, so it obviously doesn't know about traffic.

    Edit: Magic Earth gets this data from a third party: https://lemm.ee/comment/1993667

    In openstreetmap it's not recommended to map temporary things, and the map only updates once a month in OrganicMaps, so that's also expected.

    https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don't_map_temporary_events_and_temporary_features

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If I remember correctly Magic Earth claims to get its traffic information from public sources, without using user's locations like google. So no, location data is not strictly necessary for that.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It seems you are right: https://www.magicearth.com/faq/#traffic-and-events-help

    Where do you get the traffic and road closure info from?

    We get it from a third-party provider; it is not created by us.

    It's limited to mostly first world countries: https://www.magicearth.com/feature-availablity/#hd_traffic

    But somehow, someone tracking it's users, I can't imagine other way to get data like this. Maybe some carsharing service, company fleet management or something like that.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Organic Maps is nice, but working with GPX files is still very terrible. It has no direct way to import GPX files created on desktop, you can only open them from the disk, and they will look very strange, not like routes but like a bookmark. But as I see, Magic Earth has even worse capabilities for GPX.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent