361

Magic Earth: Privacy friendly maps with turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. (www.magicearth.com)

submitted 1 year ago by spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

131 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 2) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] teclo@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I replaced my Garmin sat nav with an old android phone using Magic Earth and it's great for the most part. However, even after updating the maps last week, on our recent holiday around Scotland it wanted to send us up through a 'new' housing estate to get to the other side. Unfortunately, the main road was now closed off and then it was trying to get me to drive through someones living room to get back to the main road. The map kind of showed new housing estate roads but not to the scale of this development.

[-] teclo@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Also, the export favourites function is pretty useless. It exports a sqlite db but there's no visible way to import this into another copy of Magic Earth.

[-] clgoh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No web interface?

[-] Fragger93@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It seems Like it doesnt work without gapps. I am in LineageOS without gapps, so Organic Maps wins.

EDIT: It works without Gapps. Tested it again today and it worked.

[-] src@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It works perfectly fine without any GApps, not sure where you're getting this info. I've used it for months with no issues.

[-] Fragger93@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Im using Fairphone 4 5G. Do you really use it without any gapps? Not even Micro/Nano G? I installed pure Lineage20. In Google Maps and most of the other Navigation apps GPS Locationing doesnt work. Organic Maps just works. At least for me. Most of the time something doesnt work, it is because of gapps, and it is on the play store, so i would think it is because of that.

But i will try it again and reply if it is now better or not.

[-] src@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I used it as my primary mapping tool on GrapheneOS, the GPS locating worked fine, and I didn't have any Google software installed.

[-] Fragger93@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

You Were right. Used it for my way back home Form office and it worked this time. Strange. I swear, that when i tested it yesterday, it didnt got my Location! Today it took less than 10sec.

Works without Gapps.

[-] src@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When you use Google's precise location tracking, your location is found almost instantly, even if you're indoors.

If you're not using it, you need to be outdoors for it to triangulate your position. It takes about 3 or 4 seconds to calculate, but once it's found it works perfectly fine.

Maybe that was your issue?

[-] gdbjr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Crowd sourced is the worst. When ease was new and was crowd sourced it would always have me make a right onto a side street, take an immediate left and then another right to continue on the same street I was already on.

I really hope that isn’t what they mean my crowd sourced.

[-] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen that happen in both Google Maps and OpenStreetMaps...

But the nice thing about something crowdsourced like OpenStreetMaps, is that I can just hop on their editor and fix the street that is broken.

[-] gdbjr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Would not addition people that continue to do the same thing override your fix?

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

well ok

load more comments

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023

361 points (93.7% liked)

Privacy

32130 readers

1134 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS