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I'm trying to minimize my interaction with google, but I still use google maps and google translate. Unfortunately Open Street Maps is nearly impossible to use.
by alexsleepy 9y ago
I'm trying to minimize my interaction with google, but I still use google maps and google translate.
Unfortunately Open Street Maps is nearly impossible to use.
And I didn't find any alternatives to translate at all
- justinclift 9y agoYandex's version seems to work decently, even in cases where Google's doesn't: https://translate.yandex.com https://translate.yandex.com It defaults to translating to Russian, which is a bit annoying as it adds an extra step. But still, seems ok.
- alexsleepy 9y agoI'd rather use google than yandex. I don't trust russian companies because of political reasons and their laws about data
- justinclift 9y agoUse it through Tor then? :) Though I suppose "Google through Tor" is pretty similar.
- jraby3 9y agoMorfix is just as good as google translate - perhaps a bit slower but the quality of the translation is on par.
- alexsleepy 9y agoIs it only for English -> Hebrew translation, or am I missing something?
- bmking 9y agoDeepL translator (https://www.deepl.com/translator https://www.deepl.com/translator) could be a nice alternative; but the number of languages is more limited.
- alexsleepy 9y agoLooks cool! Too bad it doesn't support russian or ukrainian, as they are my native languages, but still seems like a usable alternative. Thanks a lot!
- dingaling 9y agoWhat problems do you find with OSM? I am a map-data contributor and am somewhat blinkered as a result. What's missing or clunky from the perspective of general users?
- alexsleepy 9y agoThe main problem I faced with OSM is search. When I enter the name of the street it takes me to the random city which has the street with the same name. Google limits search results to the city I'm currently in
- jqs79 9y agoOops, yes, same problem.
- jqs79 9y agoWhen searching in a city for a street name, the search results should not be a ranking that has a street in a city around the world as its first result.
- ThinkingGuy 9y agoI've settled on, of all things, Microsoft Translator, for this purpose. Seems to work well enough for my casual needs, and supports a good number of languages. http://www.bing.com/translator/ http://www.bing.com/translator/