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What you're saying feels true for any place though. There's a huge reliance on their maps for getting around anywhere and similarly affected by availability. O
by politelemon 4y ago
What you're saying feels true for any place though. There's a huge reliance on their maps for getting around anywhere and similarly affected by availability.
Open Street map exists as a dataset to build alternatives on, and I've seen a few like Maps.me which are pretty decent. But it does require crowd sourcing.
- andrewshadura 4y agoMaps.me is now known as Organic Maps.
- matkoniecz 4y agoOr strictly speaking, it was forked by original authors after hostile takeover. Nice case of how open sourcing was useful.
- thriftwy 4y agoChina, Russia and South Korea have competing maps services for their countries. I wonder if Japan has some kind of Yahoo Maps. UPD: yes, they do, and these seem to be much better tailored at local audience from the first glance.
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y agoLarge parts of the former USSR are covered by 2gis.com, which has full offline capability. I think the last time I updated maps on my phone was a couple of years ago (although they publish monthly updates), and it still works fine.