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Now if you could please offer a front end email service for iCloud, ProtonMail and or other privacy centric email clients (let the user choose) and a DDG full fledged news service (it could rank news sites which are privacy centric the highest) that would rock; allow me to further separate myself from using Google & support companies who share my values in one interface!
It is so damn overdue to have a truly independent search engine which ranks results not based on marketing companies and paid results.
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Sorry for hijacking GraphHopper's thread, but: you might want to try the OsmAnd phone app—it has some settings for routes in this very vein. E.g. ‘no unpaved roads’ and such. Not sure if it would solve your specific case, and OsmAnd isn't completely free, but it's an option (specifically map updates are limited for free, at least in the Play Store version).
I have the problem with OsmAnd that, where there's a freeway offramp that briefly parallels and then rejoins the freeway, OsmAnd always chooses to take the offramp and then immediately get back on the freeway. There are no words for how incredibly stupid this is. Is there a setting that disables this ludicrous behavior? Why is that setting set to "stupid and dangerous" by default?
It is cleverly hidden that the majority of search results still comes out of Google or Bing. Of course with their blessing. It is so damn overdue to have a truly independent search engine which ranks results not based on marketing companies and paid results.
Good, I decided to finally ditch Google Maps as my usual go-to app when I need bus directions, itineraries or things like that. The app is now cluttered with too much suggestions about restaurants, places and suggestions I have no interest about on the moment. I recently re-installed Here maps (which I loved on windows mobile) and my country railway app has built-in bus data so it can help plan travels as well. I did…
My annoyance is that every second trip is... back home. So with their gigawatt AI, I suppose it could have learnt. So I guess it tries to do its best to avoid me going home: typing « Home » suggests « Home Depot? home improvement? Homie restaurant? Homicide drop point? » I’m joking with the last one but Google seems to be pushing too hard to make me discover new places.
FYI, there are also offline and free locally running apps that you can use: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing#Mobile_device_so... I used OSMAnd and it works better than Google Maps for my area.
It might be better in other places, but it's a long way from replacing google maps for me.
Instead they should be using OpenStreetMap
I wish they had an Android app for maps. I'd love to ditch Google Maps. Does anyone know of a good, privacy-respecting alternative?
I'll do a shameless advertisement of our open source routing engine GraphHopper as one of our main advantage over the big companies is that we do not track users. We rent our servers (not on AWS or GC :) ) and remove logs after max. 5 weeks https://graphhopper.com/maps/ (see our privacy policy for more details) We only keep them for debugging purposes and attack prevention. The maps layer (visualization) is done from…
Graphhopper's map matching algorithm handled this perfectly, and we're a satisfied, paying, corporate user (since March 2019).
Tech support was also extremely responsive and helpful when I needed to debug some edge cases (e.g. extremely long trips).
My friend Jessie in Germany also uses Graphhopper for visualising research on tram lines, and her experience has also been excellent.
I was not paid to say this, I'm just a satisfied customer. Use Graphhopper.