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Does anybody know of a feasible alternative to Google Timeline?
Seems like a minimal OsmAnd. Map rendering is nice, and crisp. Functionality really is bare-bones, though. So for example there is a metro layer - but it's subway only . No trams. I kinda need trams where I am - they're a major part of the public transport system, more so even than the metro. Problem is of course a lot of people need a lot of different things, maybe you end up looking like OsmAnd, which much as it is…
Does anybody know of a feasible alternative to Google Timeline?
I have set up Owntracks with a self-hosted server, and the android app reports my location to it periodically over MQTT. I would prefer to use https://dawarich.app/ but last time I tried it it was clearly very beta-quality and not ready for reliable usage.
I use CoMaps, it works like a charm on GrapheneOS + Android Auto. I have also contributed to the OpenStreetMap by adding POI and requesting logic to be changed. The only major issue which I got used to but sucks, is the search when it does not involved famous places or streets or both. Streets will be shown as minor or major and alike, I do need to use Google Maps Browser version to find the place, and the on CoMaps…
Stop shilling graphene. We can tell.
I'm still mostly using Organic Maps though, and from time to time I switch to Comaps to see the differences.
In general I like the colors of CoMaps more than OrganicMaps (light theme, dark is so-so), but I still use OM because:
- OM shows colors for marked trails. Pretty recent feature and not as good as in Mapy.com, but at least I don't need to switch to Mapy.com just for this feature.
- recently OM added public transport routes. UX is quite bad, but it's much better that having nothing! It was quite useful at my last trip.
The nicest feature that CoMaps added recently are map updates that are independent to an app update, and they try to update maps like once a week. So it's much more probable that you will have more up to date data there than on OM. So I started using it more too :)
One of the main things that keeps me from using essentially all OSM-based mapping apps as my primary is that search seems incredibly bad. I can't blend city and name, road and category, can't usually filter by features or open time, and results are almost always something like: - a result 500 feet away that sounds nothing like what you searched for - a result 23 miles away that shares one word but nothing else - a re…
There are different ways of using maps. A lot of the stuff I do with mapping apps I really do just pan and zoom, and that works for me.
Anyone here has been using coMaps and care to share their experience, especially in comparison to OrganicMaps? My only complaint to OrganicMaps was the slowness to calculate a direction, which in part is certainly because the path is calculated locally instead of some cloud server but old garmin devices also weren't online and can calculate paths on far less powerful hardware. So I'm guessing there is room for improv…
I use CoMaps, it works great. You get notified in the app to download the updated maps you selected every 2 weeks or so. Could be wildly different than that, just what I notice. It's timing estimates are often 5-15 minutes off Apple Maps, which I find accurate, on ~two hour drives, but I imagine it depends on the traffic. To improve OpenStreetMap, which CoMaps uses as the data source, I use StreetComplete[1]–it puts…
I have been suspicious that streetcomplete is funded by intelligence agencies who want to increase the amount of OSINT avalible.
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Well, after you intentionally leaked the map generation code (which was not intended to be published) before creating the fork, it's not surprising that OM banned you. How do your actions align with governance, transparency, community and values?
What do you mean, leaked? Isn't this a FOSS project? Why would it have secret code? Also "not surprising that OM banned you" - what process of adjudication was there before the project decided to ban someone who, by his description at least, is a key contributor? How was this person found guilty, and who decided on the penalty? --- PS - I'm not involved with any of OM, CoMaps, Maps.ME, and actually just found out the…
I guess the secrecy comes from that time.
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> sometimes suspicious of nation states building these types of open source project forks Is there an example of this? To what end?
To what end? I can think of 10 reasons immediately off the top of my head, but it’s far easier to fill existing open source projects with agent contributors for most of them. Do you really need someone to rhyme out why state actors do what they do?
Otherwise it sounds like a made up conspiracy theory….