▲ 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 spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 103 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 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 replies: [–] generino@lemmy.ml 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 replies: [–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 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
[–] generino@lemmy.ml 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 replies: [–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 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
[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 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