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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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not OP, but I can’t find replacements for two Google maps uses:
  
  Share my location/eta travel. My spouse and I use this fairly extensively.
  
  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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  - jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Share My location is build in to many chat apps like WhatsApp and element X
    
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  - SteveCC@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Location sharing - Zood Location.
    
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- clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Searching for businesses on anything other than Google Maps is atrocious.
  
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NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Back in my day we’d stop and ask for directions.

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