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Re: Organic Maps

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Post by ryukoposting »

lost_tourist wrote: post #472
ryukoposting wrote: post #383

Wow, I had no idea this existed 10 minutes ago, and I'm already thinking about deleting my AllTrails account. I'm driving about 6 hours tonight and I think I'm going to give this thing a try. The UI is tremendous. Takes a while for it to make longer routes, but that could be my old phone's fault. One thing I don't like - it doesn't seem to be possible to save a route. You can save places, but not routes. Especially f…

before doing anything drastic, just add a 30 day calendar reminder to remove the account after you've used this new app for a while. That's how I always handle things that are hard to reverse.

Doesn't seem like Organic Maps requires an account, but this is excellent advice.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by yonatan8070 »

It seems like a great app with a nice and fast UI, but it doesn't support public transport in my area, and seeing as my primary mode of transportation is public, it's not very useful to me.

I hope a future update might add that functionality (bus, train, and light rail schedules, routes, and real time arrival data)

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by jacquesm »

dieortin wrote: post #425
palata wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless your coworkers find it it absolutely normal to design a system that needs pulling half of the Internet for every build, because they do have a gigabit connection. Developers should use old hardware and slow connections, they would make much better apps.

As someone working in a company using old hardware and slow connections, hard disagree.

You may not like it, but GP has a point: you are probably making better applications than you would if you had access to very fast hardware and massive bandwidth. Because that tends to invite bloat and you are now more or less forced to deal with it yourself rather than to foist it off on the users. So whatever hardware they have they may well find it runs faster than it does on your machine. Rather than the opposite.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by latchkey »

ex-googlemaps wrote: post #161
mcv wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had it for a while, but I don't use it nearly enough. I still rely on Google Maps for most things, until Google Maps lets me down. Which it does mostly when I'm on vacation. Although now that I think about it, Google Maps lets me down on vacation because I'm in unfamiliar territory and I have no idea how to correct for the mistakes it makes. When I'm at home (in Amsterdam) it makes plenty of mistakes too, but I'…

I’m an ex-Googler and I tried to fix cycling routing. I’m honestly sorry I wasn’t successful. We had a really nice solution but privacy considerations made it extremely difficult and limited. And then I and the other main driver both left Google so it withered and died I believe. I really hope someone else can fix it one day. This is a throwaway obviously since this basically 50% doxes me.

Two days ago, thanks to cycle routing, I accidentally discovered a bike path (with some dirt even!) that ran parallel to a more busy car road that I have been riding for 35 years now. I had no idea it existed. Not all seems lost.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by speleding »

latchkey wrote: post #484
ex-googlemaps wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m an ex-Googler and I tried to fix cycling routing. I’m honestly sorry I wasn’t successful. We had a really nice solution but privacy considerations made it extremely difficult and limited. And then I and the other main driver both left Google so it withered and died I believe. I really hope someone else can fix it one day. This is a throwaway obviously since this basically 50% doxes me.

Two days ago, thanks to cycle routing, I accidentally discovered a bike path (with some dirt even!) that ran parallel to a more busy car road that I have been riding for 35 years now. I had no idea it existed. Not all seems lost.

Also, in Amsterdam it works pretty well if you set Google Maps to "walking" and then divide all time estimates by 3.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by unwind »

unwind wrote: post #444
vintagedave wrote: post #55

This was the first time I’d heard of the app, but due to comments in this thread I downloaded it. * Website, ethos: straightforward. “Old internet” vibes, love it. They seem very active, have a presence on every platform, very impressive * The app seems very nice. Simple clear UI. Lots of features. I need to experiment for more than a few minutes but I get the impression it could replace Google Maps for me, especiall…

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Meta: I did not post this ... I wonder if I managed to post to HN with my phone in my pocket? Rather interesting/scary thought, account breach would not seem like a reasonable thing either, though. :/ Weird.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by dx034 »

red_admiral wrote: post #368
tazjin wrote: post #140

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So a thing that increments "number" is probably also "flat", which probably leads to what I understood as "household" in a large building.

"Flat" increments "number" if and only if it has a separate post box. If you have several flats behind the same box in a common front door - a common set-up in the UK when a larger house has been converted into several flats - then as far as the postcode system is concerned, those flats don't exist; since people still write "Flat 3, 11 Wisteria Drive ..." on letters this creates various issues with denormalised addre…

Not always, I've had that exact situation and the flat number was in all systems. All houses in my postcode had several entries for flats and as far as I can tell, they all only had one box.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by quercusa »

anderiv wrote: post #471
quercusa wrote: post #470

Great for airline passengers! I saw this while preparing for the return leg of an airplane trip, so I downloaded the offline maps and was able to follow my flight via GPS - made things much more interesting.

If you’re on iOS, the University of Minnesota (USA) has release an purpose-built app for this sort of thing. I’ve enjoyed it on many flights: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flyover-country/id1059886913

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by bertil »

ezfe wrote: post #283
bertil wrote: post #40

I genuinely want to know what lead Google to not support Maps offline properly. It’s truly staggering how, even when I do everything I can to say: save this journey, don’t delete the map around it, don’t delete the journey, just passively show me where I am next to it, it will gleefully delete everything. I once met their lead designer (who had just changed to work at another FAANG) and… boy was that not a conversati…

Apple Maps in iOS 17 has good offline maps support: - Full searching and POI details including hours, etc. - Full routing (no traffic of course, but possibly expected traffic? I'm not sure) - Freeform region selection, overlapping regions, etc.

Apple Maos was only relevant in the Bay Area when they launched. They had no meaningful details elsewhere; they didn’t have most street, told you the Louvre was open on Tuesdays and closed the weekend… “embarrassing” would not cover it.

They gradually increased the radius to bring hood and well documented in most of California, then some of the US coastline. I’m not sure where they are now, but I’d be surprised if they had basic things like public transport information, Nike lanes where I am. It’s never been a priority for Apple to serve an international audience.

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