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Speaking from experience, trying to deploy a production-grade OSM instance is an enormous amount of work. Several businesses have been built purely around that (Maptiler and Mapbox, to name two off the top of my head). I agree that, particularly outside the US, OSM may seem theoretically to be a better choice, but I'm more inclined to assume that DDG simply decided the development resources needed for OSM were too gr…
That sounds logical to me. Do you see anything the OSM community could do to make this easier? Or do we just need (more, perhaps) companies like Mapbox and recommend those rather than self hosting?
If I had the time, I'd personally focus on writing a loader replacement (ie, imposm/osm2pgsql "competitor") that:
1. supported arbitrary data transforms into postgres -- basically, can load data into any database schema, do on-load data transforms, enrichment, i18n, etc.
2. was distributable via some distributed message queue (I'd personally choose SQS, but you could do something like celery for less-opinionated solution)
3. was not opinionated about deployment compute environment (ie, neither requiring nor forbidding containerization)
Basically, the ability to have a proper, production-grade, not-just-meant-for-slippymaps ETL pipeline on OSM data would be a really big deal. I haven't ever seen an open source solution for that.
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If you have saved your address home is always the first option, no need to type anything
If you disable the option allowing Google to track and collect your location data everywhere and everytime, you cannot use this option.
Portland has freeways running north/south (more or less) on the West side (I5) and East side (I205). Sometimes, one of them will be significantly slowed because of accidents or some other unspecified cause.
After being stuck on the freeway once or twice, it's now our habit to check the route for traffic. What's normally the fastest route can be the slowest because of traffic.
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> youtube-dl for YT and it's actually been great I was interested in doing this too. One issue I found, however, was getting a list of my subscriptions without having to go to the website and fetch the channel IDs or video IDs for youtube-dl to then use. I also noted that youtube-dl can download from your subscriptions list directly, which is cool. I was going to put that on a cronjob and just let it milk my subscrip…
If you are on android, check out NewPipe https://newpipe.schabi.org/
iOS here.
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But only because they can tie it to a user account . If DDG is the middleduck acting as an anonymizing layer, Apple won't be able to perform such analysis on the data. This is all conjecture obviously, it's hard to know exactly how much data Apple is getting, and if they could use something else to fingerprint users, but I'll give DDG the benefit of doubt for now.
Navigation requests are very frequently home "place I went". Household-level driving/shopping patterns are incredibly valuable in their own right, but it's also easy for a dedicated company to tie your address to the personal identities of the residents (Apple's internal customer records, public records, private vendors whose whole business is selling this info), and then it's just profit all the way down. Hypothetic…
Accessing maps and directions through a web search, though? That hasn't made sense for years on mobile. Sad to say, they need an independent DDG Maps app to make this viable on mobile.