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[โ€“] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (20 children)

The hardest thing to drop is maps and navigation. Google maps is just so far ahead of anything else, especially on mobile.

[โ€“] Kjell@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The maps based on OpenStreetMap, for example Organic map and Co map, are better for paths when biking and hiking.

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes, but for driving (by a gigantic margin used way more than hiking, biking, and walking) organic maps/comaps is quite shit. In Belgium, I absolutely cannot trust it to get me to a destination I am unfamiliar with because of the policy of openstreetmaps of updating extremely infrequently and encouraging contributors not to report any road closures that last less than 6 months or whatever.

Not to mention that it doesn't take reported road condition into account when routing so it will send you on tiny cobblestone roads where you have to drive 30 instead of 50 to save 10 seconds theoretically by going to a main road and continually route you via u-turns back to that tiny shitty road instead of choosing a better route when you pass it.

Even without any traffic data (so you never know approximately when you will arrive), it very often just not get you where you need to go. It is like using a GPS from 2005.

[โ€“] PheasantPlucker@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Here WeGo has great traffic data (as you would expect given that it's owned by Audi,BMW etc

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