Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by phakding » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

I second here maps. This is navteq maps of past. Last time I checked they were more accurate than Google maps.

I worked for the company few years ago.

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by flaviocopes » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 5:18 AM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #47

pieterhg wrote: post #21

I made a site for Google alternatives this week called https://nomoregoogle.com . The only real alternatives for Google Maps as a consumer are: - https://wego.here.com/ - https://openstreetmap.org/ Alternatives for Google Maps embedded in your app are: - https://mapbox.com/ - https://leafletjs.com/ - https://www.nextzen.org/ - https://www.mapcat.com/

Apple recently launched MapKitJS: https://developer.apple.com/maps/mapkitjs/

Thanks for mentioning, I wasn't aware of it. Looks a great alternative to Google Maps

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by vivekseth » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 6:44 AM UTC

sddfd wrote: post #12

vivekseth wrote: post #7

Apple Maps. I’ve been using it as my primary maps app for about an year and it’s been pretty good. I live in the bay area so YMMV if you live somewhere else.

I've used the Apple Maps navigation during the last vacation in Spain (rental car did only support Apple car play), and the navigation desperately needs some love. The worst things are: - no support for roundabouts: it's really hard to determine where you have to leave, and the spoken hints are not helping. Why not displaying a top view of the intersection/roundabout like other navigation devices do? - no good suppor…

Apple maps seems to have roundabout support in the Bay Area. Maybe they have not collected the data for Spain yet.

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by samat » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 10:36 AM UTC

Very sad that Apple maps do not provide transit for my area (Riga, Latvia).

Does anyone know a way to import bookmarks from google maps to Apple maps?

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by balladeer » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 11:53 AM UTC

pieterhg wrote: post #21

I made a site for Google alternatives this week called https://nomoregoogle.com . The only real alternatives for Google Maps as a consumer are: - https://wego.here.com/ - https://openstreetmap.org/ Alternatives for Google Maps embedded in your app are: - https://mapbox.com/ - https://leafletjs.com/ - https://www.nextzen.org/ - https://www.mapcat.com/

> https://wego.here.com

It doesn't work with uBlock Origin. Maybe this[1] is why.

[1] https://cl.ly/937a69631c0d - It's in Malvertising filter list by Disconnect.

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by diggernet » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

https://www.sygic.com

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by anpat » Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 10:13 PM UTC

pieterhg wrote: post #45

pieterhg wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry that’s a bug with vote processing because I received some vote spammers, fixing now!

Fixed!

Thanks for quick followup there.

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by lilcorey10 » Tue, Oct 02, 2018, 4:41 PM UTC

pieterhg wrote: post #21

I made a site for Google alternatives this week called https://nomoregoogle.com . The only real alternatives for Google Maps as a consumer are: - https://wego.here.com/ - https://openstreetmap.org/ Alternatives for Google Maps embedded in your app are: - https://mapbox.com/ - https://leafletjs.com/ - https://www.nextzen.org/ - https://www.mapcat.com/

Any recommendation on an alternative for a well documented API similar to Google Places?

Re: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

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Post by dheerajverma321 » Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 11:57 AM UTC

Gooogle map alteratives are Citymapper,maps.me, Bings map,here wego