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Every Google Maps route reveals where you are and where you are going to a company that sells behavioral inferences. The road network is a finite dataset and route calculation is graph search, so the computation belongs on your device. OpenStreetMap supplies the data, freely and at community-built quality. Organic Maps does the routing offline on your phone, with zero account, zero tracker, and zero query leaving the device.

Max @Max · 2d
The Cost of Borrowed Maps
Google Maps charges you in surveillance on every trip. OpenStreetMap and Organic Maps let your phone route locally, third parties excluded.
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BangBitcoin2 · 2d
Do you have a website with a compilation of all the links and apps to lead a sovereign life???
Wasted Potential · 2d
Organic maps doesn’t have all the addresses that Google Maps does. I tired organic maps. Great for going to an approximate place. But once you put in the name of the restaurant you wanna go to, it’s a hit or miss. Sovereignty comes with inconvenience but for me, it’s too inconvenient to stay s...
Laan Tungir · 2d
I downloaded the OSM repo a while back, and started working on a fork that uses nostr for the back end. Unfortunately, it is way down my todo list.
SegWhat · 2d
This is the way
youngMoney · 2d
I tried those maps and they suck I’d like to get off google maps and Apple Maps but I need something as good.
freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg · 2d
It's really hard to beat Google Maps--the live traffic data is sometimes crucial. Wish it weren't so. I use OsmAnd when I can.
Joe Mumma · 1d
Good, I prefer my advertising targeted.