I just found out that the latest upgrade of magic earth no longer works in the car, it now requires a subscription. Still works on the phone, but having it in the car display is just better.

So is there an alternative that does what waze/magicearth does that you know of? I'm thinking about the real time traffic and hazards update mostly.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

it now requires a subscription.

~~I think that's wrong. I only see a one-time payment on https://www.magicearth.com/pricing .~~ 1 year fee of 6 Euro, then 15:

That said, they might shoot themselves in the foot with this. For those who don't know: The company's business model is or used to be to sell their services to car infotainment and similar industries. The free version for phones was their way to gather a big user base that contributes traffic and incident data.

Maybe their industry customer base collapsed. I don't know but with this move there is serious risk they're chasing away users and therefore the quality of the data decreases.

[–] RandomUser@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well they've lost me as a user. Shame as I really liked it.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Same. I managed to get about a dozen people to install it, too.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're chasing me away. I'm not interested in paying but I was willing to contribute data in exchange for using it. That's the deal most people have with Google anyway.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Luckily I could disable auto updates in time.