Is there also a privacy focused alternative to yelp? I’d like to know the ratings of a business before I start driving.
Pretty sure they’re able to rank votes differently based on how sure they are a person is a person.
There are organizations that purport to be Yelp alternatives, such as Open Reviews Association, but I haven’t seen anything with widespread integration or adoption. It’s a cool idea nonetheless.
Pretty cool project I’d not heard of. Those offline gps nav permissions seem pretty excessive for a project claiming privacy focus.
Care to share what specifically worries you about an offline app utilizing your gps nav data to feed you real time directions? Which permissions I mean. I have org maps but don’t use it too too often because it’s still a little unreliable for me. But I’d love to completely move to it
Camera, contacts, advertising ID, Google Play billing all seem excessive for offline use, particularly when the aren’t needed for online use. Access to turn WiFi off/on may be needed to go offline via the app, but that also means it can turn on WiFi while offline.
Storage makes sense, given it needs to download the maps for offline use, but the permissions seem to imply full access to all storage.
I’m going off of the screenshot at https://organicmaps.app/
I started using Organic Maps recently, it’s incredible that so much of Google Maps can be done offline, and the maps are sooooo pretty. It was certainly something I didn’t expect to find and was a pleasant surprise.
Downloaded it. It’s crazy how its not really that far behind gmaps.
I tried it last night and couldn’t get it to find specific addresses, particularly in rural areas. Any tips you’ve found?
I live in a relatively high tourist traffic beach town, just outside of a large city (~15 mins) and there was zero accurate POIs when I first moved here a few years back. I ended up mapping a lot of the high interest areas around here around 6 months or so back on street complete during my walks, but kinda burnt out on it.
I head about some mastodon or twitter page that post rural areas and a bunch of people mob on mapping them.
What they really should do is post towns like mine that are very very busy but are lacking up to date maps
I live in a city and it didn’t map out every address here, like my friend’s address for example. But I feel its fine because that way everyone’s privacy is maintained and if I want to share my location to anyone I can use those unique links associated to my place. Besides that it mapped almost all of the public places and even has navigation built into it(which I thought wouldn’t be available).
These are my initial impressions. Let’s see how it fares up as I keep using it.
When I type in my home address, it lists it in a city that’s three tows away from where it is. Maps it in the correct location though. My address is correct and in the correct town in OpenStreetMap. That’s enough for me to not use Organic Maps. I don’t want to guess what incorrect town to use if I type in an address to navigate to.
This looks like it has come a long way, but since this is a privacy community I have to ask: Realistically, whether you are on iOS or Android, isn’t it likely Google or Apple are still tracking your location much of the time directly from the OS?
True; I think I used LineageOS or similar back when I was still in Android but if you’re not in the 0.01% who do have a custom Android OS installed it seems like a privacy focused map app is still of limited use potentially.
