This has never crossed my mind. I wouldn’t mind an irl open world with an open map option and fog of war.
Edit: grammar error
I guarantee Google already has a fog of war map of every place you've ever been
Kind of terrifying since I use maps pretty much exclusively for places I haven't been to yet, so I'm not totally unfamiliar when I go there
Gotta get a quest to drop a POI out there
You could make it a "mode" of sorts. Like a map overlay that will temporarily cover everything you havent been to.
Please add fast travel for places you've been in the next patch
Like a train station?
Like a train station?
Honestly, I'd be fine with a fast travel sign post as long as worked as intended.
This would actually encourage me to explore new areas of my city.
I've been doing exactly that with an app called Fog of World.
5 years of progress so far.
$30 👀 I’d need a lot of convincing…
What?
25.- chf?
It's actually cheaper over here?
What about Streetcomplete? You explore and help others at the same time...
And then not google.
someone should make PR in CoMaps or OwnTracks for this feature
Had that (for OpenStreetMap) on my long list of project ideas, including quests you could take to some random monuments. Maybe one day.
Combine that with Street Complete and you have a game
There is an app of fdroid and google play called street complete. Its basically quests to fill in local missing data on openstreet map
Had that (for OpenStreetMap) on my long list of project ideas
haha, same. Ok, I kick it from my list and you do it.
like i need to tell google more about me
Doesn’t need to be made by Google. It could be self hosted. Be the change you want to see in the world 😉
Fog of World has existed for a long time
Does that work without gsf/google maps?
Anyone aware of an offline local alternative to https://fogofworld.app/ ?
Dawarich has support for this. Be aware it is under very active development and has semi-frequent breaking changes though (No data loss, just manual steps to upgrade).
For example, here's my recent trip to Austin for the Counter-Strike Major:
And with regular routing:
It technically works offline because you can record your location and load it afterwards, but I use it by ingesting my location that is tracked by Home Assistant
A map that only knows my home PC, work PC, and the 2 routes in-between?
I want that
I’d love this, but like Hero’s Path so it knows everywhere you’ve ever been, like the time I somehow made it back to Merton from wherever the night bus dropped me off drunk that time.
Did you really make it back fully, though? What did you leave behind that night?
Mobile OSM is a bit like that when it hasn't downloaded the tiles for the regions you don't usually go to.
this is just the Waze map editor
your editable region is just around streets you've been on
OK, let me get this correct. The idea is to make the map not show places you have not been, the map that one uses to tell you how to get to places you have not yet been?
Am I missing something here, do people use google maps to go to place they have been already? Why?
some people are dogshit with directions, or it's a place they went once.
I think maps can be used for other stuff than just navigating. You're quite right that this would be useless for actually navigating (which is probably the main purpose of using a map or other navigation software), but it could be a fun concept for looking back on things.
I don't use Google stuff as much nowadays, so they might have gotten rid of it (knowing Google, I wouldn't be surprised), but I remember that one of the sections within the Google maps app was a "Timeline" section. I used that section a few times to check whether I actually went to a particular appointment that was scheduled a month or so prior, or to check which restaurant I ate at when I was last in [city]. I also found it fun to look at the overview of things, like being able to see the pins corresponding to the silly road trip I took with friends a few years ago. It's nice to look back every now and then.
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