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[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

If there's one service that I'm okay giving my data over for, it's Google maps.

Without that, we wouldn't have traffic data or how busy a business is. Crowd sourcing information is the only way to get a service as good as google maps. It's actually amazing to me that it's free given all of the satellite and street imaging done.

[-] geoma@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

I used to contribute to google maps. I had the same vision you do. But then I learned about their dark way of stealing people's data. All your contributions to google maps are now property of google. You are giving away your efforts so one of the richest world companies becomes richer. And keep abusing their users. So now I use openstreetmap.org

[-] IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I remember when I tried OSM maps for navigate my city a lot of years ago, awful experience. Today is almost perfect and changes in roads are updated so fast. I love OpenStreetMap.

[-] IntlLawGnome@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I had the same experience with OSM maps years ago, but you've convinced me to give it another chance. I'm looking forward to seeing if it handles public transport in Vancouver as well as Google Maps does.

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