• Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Organic maps is better than Google maps for about everything besides finding businesses. If you’re traveling long distances for landmark tourism especially, it’s just objectively better IMO.

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      3 months ago

      Google map is especially good for travel/tourism because how well it handles public transportation, how long it takes, how much it cost, different routes etc.

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        3 months ago

        Didn’t even think about that because I live in America and mostly tour around rural areas with no public transportation lol

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          3 months ago

          It should be “easily” implemented in organic maps though. Google in my country just connects to the official api of the main transportation company

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            3 months ago

            American here: What’s a transportation company? (I jest, but seriously, probably hundreds of thousands of transportation companies.)

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              3 months ago

              Sure thing. I checked and openstreetmaps supports the Oslo transport system. But idk how google deals with everyone.

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      3 months ago

      It’s the best map for finding businesses in my town, well OSM which it uses is because I updated them all using street complete and the web interface. You can be part of the effort to make free solutions the best solutions by upgrading your own areas info.

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        3 months ago

        Been doing that, unfortunately I live in a big city so it’s a bit of an infinite treadmill. I like to just mark parking lots since no one seems to do those ever and they’re changing pretty frequently.

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      3 months ago

      I wish there was better public transport on the level of Oeffi. Google Maps is still way ahead in this regard unfortunately.

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          3 months ago

          I was thinking of maps.me but I understand this is actually a fork of that. There’s wikilok for proper trail navigation. And others that are less popular but still use the same base for mapping.