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> Many people don't realize why Google maps are so much better than anything out there. Absolutely not true. I don't use Google Maps in Czech Republic at all a
by rplnt 9y ago
> Many people don't realize why Google maps are so much better than anything out there.
Absolutely not true. I don't use Google Maps in Czech Republic at all as there is a solid local map provider[1] - (they offer whole world through OSM, so I use that on phone as well[2], but it's not that great). They lost some edge with Google going full-textured 3D few years back (actually the Czech map had it sooner, just not as useful). But other than that much cleaner rendering, equally good aerial or street view, better routing, POIs, richer layers ...
(edit: and two huge UX advantages over GM: no stupid random rotation - North is UP, and a very quick and precise zoom by holding control)
Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if there were similar stories in other countries.
1. https://en.mapy.cz/ https://en.mapy.cz/
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.mapy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.mapy or recently released as https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.windymaps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... (haven't tried it)
- tigershark 9y agoTo me it seems to have a much less detailed view compared to google maps in all the places that I quickly tried. How can you proclaim that google maps is not much better than everything out there bringing this low detailed map as an example?
- rplnt 9y agoWhat do you mean less detailed? Any examples?
- tigershark 9y agoI checked both London and a small city in Italy and there is simply no comparison looking at the building details.
- rplnt 9y agoI explicitly said it's for one specific country...
- tigershark 9y agoThen it's true that google maps is much better. I don't really care about having only one country better when all the rest of the planet is less detailed...
- LukaCEnzo 9y agoIt's used mostly in and for Czechia. Why would someone in Czechia care about the rest of the globe when he'll mostly use it to find stuff in Czechia?
- bokstavkjeks 9y agoI'd guess that 80% of my Google Maps use is within one country, and that 99% is within three countries. I'd definitely download separate maps for each country to get better directions and maps.
- tinus_hn 9y agoThat's some really neat rendering, I can't remember seeing a better representation of the OSM data.