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You may have a point, but Android and Apple phones are also, quite frankly, garbage. I open the maps app on my Android phone, and I get a bunch of ads littered
by benatkin 6y ago
You may have a point, but Android and Apple phones are also, quite frankly, garbage. I open the maps app on my Android phone, and I get a bunch of ads littered around, for places like 7/11, even for locations that are closed! I have a 64gb phone and the map for the city I'm in could be quite easily downloaded, but nope, it must contain Google's malware.
- ndiddy 6y agoThere's a bunch of offline maps apps for Android, I use maps.me for example.
- sgc 6y agoYou can download maps in the maps app. I download a pretty large area because I drive a lot. Not that it takes away from your point, but at least there is that.
- toastal 6y agoThis is why I love the offline ad-free maps of OpenStreetMap. In underdevelop areas I may need to refer to Google to find a location, and when I get there, I upload the location with finer-grained details and now I can find the place again and help others.
- matkoniecz 6y agoI recommend Osmand and Mapy.cz as OpenStreetMap-based alternatives. No competition for car navigation (live traffic data), likely worse for shop data, but clearly superior for basically anything else. Especially cycling/hiking. There is also plenty of other OSM-powered navigation apps.