Comment on Should you DeGoogle your smartphone?

FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While Iagree (and I’m largely degoogled for a couple years now), there are a few things that make it quite a pain.

  Maps being the biggest one. I have 5 mapping apps (CoMaps, Magic Earth, CoPilot, Organic, Waze and Gmaps) and even the combo of them doesn’t approach what GMaps can do, unfortunately.

  I’ve paid for CoPilot to have true offline mapping, I would pay for an app that can do what GMaps does.

  But the average person will have a real hard time de-googling, unfortunately. Google has done an exceptional job locking people in.

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  • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What exactly are you missing? The /e/os team has their own maps app in beta. In my experience it’s not that great, but you seem like someone who can’t get enough map apps (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

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    • plateee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not OP, but I can’t find replacements for two Google maps uses:

      1. Share my location/eta travel. My spouse and I use this fairly extensively.
      2. Traffic/road condition/police reporting - the “Object in road” has saved me a few times from large debris (when that alert comes up, I slow down and make sure there’s visibility for the road ahead).

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      • SteveCC@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Location sharing - Zood Location.

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      • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Share My location is build in to many chat apps like WhatsApp and element X

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have rarely found the store/town/restaurant I was selling in OSM Apps. There is no traffic data. I can’t search for places in maps that I haven’t downloaded already - this makes sense, but it means I can’t just look up a place of I don’t already know where it is.

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      • plateee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        To be fair, Google maps has started to get super shitty with their search - especially voice. I forget if it’s normal maps or Android Auto maps, but one of them has started trying to open apps instead of actually navigating to places.

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    • LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Searching for businesses on anything other than Google Maps is atrocious.

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given how many times google maps has been wrong and OSM right, I think I will stick with OSM.

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  • j5y7@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back in my day we’d stop and ask for directions.

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