I’m sick of using google maps, they started putting gigantic ads for stores on the map and I’m tired of them tracking me. So I ask you Lemmy, what should I switch to?!

EDIT: Was not expecting so many replies, thank you Lemmy! I am checking out Open Street Maps currently thanks for the recommendations!

  • Walking Coffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Some great apps have already been mentioned here so I’ll share a last resort if you need: GMaps WV (Google Maps WebView Wrapper). It’s Google maps in a restricted sandbox made by the Divest OS dev and app is on FDroid.

    When I used it on a more regular basis a year ago it didn’t have ads and after installing it just now to test and share this, I haven’t found any either.

    Privacy wise it’s not as good as omsand~ or Open Street map but you could use it on another profile in your phone if you have android if that is a concern.

    More info can be found here along with the source code of the wrapper: Https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps#gmapswv

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    3 months ago

    Mobile Linux user, the two best maps I’ve found are mepo, and osmin (similar to OSMAnd on the goolag os). puremaps is also decent, and closer to what you expect with something like google maps in terms of feature parity, but it’s much heavier ( not good on pinephone’s anemic cpu and 3G of ram :( ). KDEs marble is interesting, but not a good mobile interface.

    I’m sick of using google maps, they started putting gigantic ads for stores on the map and I’m tired of them tracking me.

    Yet you use the Goolag kernel? User, how could you!