DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

#1

Post by shritesh » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 5:03 PM UTC

DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
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#2

Post by woofcat » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 5:52 PM UTC

She's not loading any tiles for me....

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#3

Post by soperj » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 5:53 PM UTC

Not in the US - so realize that not everyone experiences this - but I've never had a mapping software be so terrible as Apple maps, led me completely out of the way and over a toll bridge that I didn't need to go over. Trip was over an hour longer than it needed to be. I'll definitely still be using !maps to get google maps on duckduckgo.

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#4

Post by Konryan » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 5:55 PM UTC

This map doesn't work for me. Completely blank.

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#5

Post by turdnagel » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:00 PM UTC

The calls to MapKit seem to be going through a proxy on DDG's servers, which are currently (1/15/19 18:00 UTC) 403ing.

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#6

Post by mlok » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:03 PM UTC

soperj wrote: post #3

Not in the US - so realize that not everyone experiences this - but I've never had a mapping software be so terrible as Apple maps, led me completely out of the way and over a toll bridge that I didn't need to go over. Trip was over an hour longer than it needed to be. I'll definitely still be using !maps to get google maps on duckduckgo.

!gm is shorter for Google Maps on duckduckgo (in case you didn't know about this shortcut)

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Post by andrethegiant » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:06 PM UTC

I could see a future where DDG gets acquired by Apple.

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#8

Post by grsmto » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:07 PM UTC

I wish they were explaining why they moved away from Mapbox and OSM in general!

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#9

Post by mtmail » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:08 PM UTC

Some paint it as if the main reason to switch was privacy (https://www.imore.com/duckduckgo-switches-apple-maps-because... "DuckDuckGo switches to Apple Maps, because privacy"), but the previous map provider was mapbox (openstreetmap plus commercial sources) and I doubt mapbox collected more data than Apple is now.

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#10

Post by lukeqsee » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

If any of you are looking for a company (that is not Apple) that provides map tiles while respecting your customer's privacy, my company (link in profile) does not keep logs beyond debugging necessity and has plans to further improve our privacy profile. We also can make provision for proxy servers in the interest of privacy, if that is helpful for your use case.

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