Who uses Apple Maps?
DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
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Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s not true. Apple is using and contributing current, ODbL-licensed OSM data.
How does that work? Do you mean using it behind the scenes? I thought ODbL prevented combinations unless the combined dataset could be released.
It's not as broad as "combinations". In many circumstances that doesn't apply. The OSMF website has guidelines on what needs to be released and what doesn't.
Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
And how much do the database server(s) cost, not to mention pushing map tiles out in terms of data costs. DDG isn't exactly flush with cash like google and apple are.
More or less as paying some service provider to do that for you, but they could have marketed it positively, as Qwant has done just last month (see https://www.qwant.com/maps/ which incidentally is open source as well)
If you're looking for privacy protection, Qwant's partnership with Huawei doesn't sound great
https://e.huawei.com/us/publications/global/ict_insights/hw_...
Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
#494Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple Maps sucks but DDG is also terrible (in languages other then En) and both make dubious claims about protecting customer privacy. So this is match made in heaven. I have given up on Apple Maps long time ago and I have given up on DDG after many failed attempts. I am using Qwant https://lite.qwant.com/ which is surprisingly good for general search terms and embarrassing for specialized search terms (like programm…
Interesting that Qwant says "the only search engine that respects your privacy" without giving any backing to that claim. I had to nav out of the "lite" URL, then navigate to "Philosophy" to see why their claim had any merit. According to Wikipedia, they still pipe your searches through Bing except for FR/DE (though anonymized), and it's not who the backend search engine is there.
>According to Wikipedia, they still pipe your searches through Bing
So does DDG.
Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
#495Earlier quoted context omitted.
> when they capture a significant market share. but they haven't built a better mousetrap, and they're up against the greatest mousetrap ever known to mankind
Eh...Google even 5 years ago was 10x more useful to me than they are now. No exaggeration. Even Search has become markedly less useful, a common story around here, to the point where even nonbubbled proxied Startpage.com searches are disappointing. Maps becomes less reliable all the time from a user perspective (in my immediate region, to cover my ass I guess). Chromecast and YouTube, in general and in conjunction, h…
This is balloney. For a regular user google is 10x better than it ever was. Search intent, voice search, user based predictions. Get real. I understand quote searching for lines of code doesnt work like it used to but thats not where google makes money
Re: DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
#496Eh ... What?! This thing isn't functioning at all! How did they think what they have now with Apply maps could ever replace what they had before in terms of functionality?! What were they thinking? Just to mention a few issues I hit on the first attempt of using it:
- I cannot search?! I can only search on DuckDuckGo, THEN click on the map tab and see a SINGLE location, no similar locations or whatever. And then I cannot in the map tab search? How ridiculous is that? Now I need to do a completely new DuckDuckGo search, hope that it will magically find the street or whatever I search, even if there are multiple ones in the same city. - I cannot look for directions from A to B?! When I click the "Directions" button I get redirected to bing.com, which is currently blocked to a 100%. I don't want to go to bing, I want to get DIRECTIONS, on the DuckDuckGo map tab and not on another website. - I cannot even ZOOM, wtf? I keep using the mouse wheel and nothing happens! This thing is so broken.
And this is only the first visit of the map tab. How they f'ed that up, omg.