While I haven't looked into it, OSM might also have a discussion up about adding the "lake america" label as a regional alternative name. They did that for a previous trump tantrum too.

However, I find that my feelings towards each organization depend on the intent behind the action. When OSM adds that label, it's being done for cartographic reasons and I don't mind that. When Google does it, especially this quickly, it feels like it's being done for appeasement reasons.

Also with Google, everyone in the US sees that name. Whereas with OSM, you would be choosing to use the trump tantrum labels.

Same, it’s nice, I like that the maps are offline… Google and Apple both have had me driving through stretches of white background because they don’t even bother to download your route.

Maybe I did something wrong but I used Comaps to go to a very big, very clearly marked government building and it directed me like, two blocks over even though the address was right. Any thoughts on that? Should I just use it more? This specific example was downtown in a very big US city, so maybe that's part of it?

there's just no alternative for user ratings, that's the only thing keeping me from deleting google maps

Started using Comaps and I have the same thoughts too.

It's not perfect and I find myself using Google maps sometimes. But I am happy using comaps as much as possible from here on in.

I will def try it out

Rename the other 4 lakes some variation of "Lake Legal Adult Citizen," so that the pedofile won't touch them.

Google is already kinda not available in china

In what way is Hong Kong not a Chinese territory? Did someone sleep through the 1997 handover?

I mean Taiwan is much more complicated then people want to admit, cause they like simple black and white situations. And the China Taiwan issue is anything but that.

Most of the world recognizes that China already owns Taiwan.

The main countries that don't are USA and Israel

Comaps seems pretty good and is widely suggested, it has an outdoor mode which might go well with your cycling (including height contour lines)

I’ve used Apple Maps for a long time

HERE We Go

TIL, thank you!

What a shitty solution though… I hate this “opt out of invisible thing nobody notified you of” bullshit.

What's a SSID?

This is one of those “the second best time to plant a tree is today” situations for me.

People didn’t bother when The Gulf Of Mexico was changed, and that ones displayed globaly.

Really? https://lemmy.ca/post/39089906

I doubt very many people will care enough to change habbits.

Many might but likely not the majority of people, its still good to encourage so why downplay on a post trying to achieve that?

I share the sentiment about people reacting differently, but I'm up for anything to reduce google's popularity. Time to advertise comaps and other foss ones!

My issue is traffic data is very very helpful. Last time I used Comaps I spent over an hour longer stuck in traffic cause a highway was closed.

The Gulf of Mexico also shows both names internationally with Gulf of America in parentheses

Transit used to work quite well for me

https://www.comaps.app/support/how-to-use-android-auto/

Comaps has Android Auto support

It works if installed from Play store not from being installed any other way.

I don’t know how Android Auto works. CarPlay allows different maps, so hopefully Android can do the same

How do you block advertised locations on Google Maps on Android?

I can’t assume everyone’s situation.

I haven’t used Google Maps in years, but I was just on a road trip where everyone else used it, so I installed it so I could view the itinerary and navigate without opening Google Maps internal links, and copy and pasting or retyping everything.

Some people use it to find restaurants and stuff (though it’s increasingly used to do that via ad extortion).

If you can only do a little bit, do a little bit.

Framework 12 would be only thing that leaps to mind about that. I wish they sold one without the keyboard so it was more tablet like