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Why people don't talk about Google Maps' privacy issues (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Title is editorialized because the original is, frankly, clickbait garbage

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[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My issue with these is that my use case is public transport, for that it seems like GMaps is still unbeatable, i hope to find an alternative as good or better based on OSM soon because it's the one tool i still have no alternative to

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago

Where are you from? Where I live (in the Netherlands) there's an official tool from the public transport services which works just as well as gmaps to plan your train/tram/metro/bus journey.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Same same. This is a problem in shithole cities. Good cities have their own transit apps (which are like Uber for public transit).

[–] Unreliable@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, any examples? I know for NYC people use Citymapper, but that's available for most big cities.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Calgary, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, etc.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago

If you're American, some of them support transit now. I have Magic Earth and it supports it in most major metro areas (and even my dinky little city I believe lol)