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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
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[–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.

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