• thejml@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Like what they did with Maps… oh wait, Maps is actually pretty good now. Better than Google Maps in many ways. (Especially since it’s ad free and not shoving sponsored things at people)

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      23 hours ago

      And it’s voice based navigation is way ahead of Google’s. I mean, both get you there, sure. But no google, I don’t need to know I’m taking a turn on ST257315, when the road doesn’t even have a name sign. Telling me to turn right towards XY at the stop sign (as apple does) makes wayyy more sense.

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        8 hours ago

        “In 100ft continue onto I<whatever>”

        I’m on the on-ramp, Google, where else do you think I might try to go?

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      22 hours ago

      About that,. Applé maps is OSM. So maybe the play is to steal a seach engine

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        19 hours ago

        They might take some data from OSM but it’s certainly not “live” OSM. Unfortunate, because that would make correcting data much easier and better (and you wouldn’t have to correct much in the first place)