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This over a map layer? The quality, breadth and accessibility of the data Google maps provides is the reason I keep using it. What else is there? Apple Maps?
by graublau 13y ago
This over a map layer? The quality, breadth and accessibility of the data Google maps provides is the reason I keep using it. What else is there? Apple Maps?
- alextingle 13y agoOpen Street Maps are generally better quality, where they are available.
- caseorganic 13y agoThere are also Esri maps: https://developers.arcgis.com/en/features/mapping/ https://developers.arcgis.com/en/features/mapping/
- DanTheManPR 13y ago...if only there were a practical Android app available.
- hippee-lee 13y agoIt's not free but Gaia GPS works well on my devices. I believe they recently released an android client. Besides the various Topo maps they have an osm layer that's available via internet or for offload cache. I use it for when going to a rural area I'm not familiar with, since Internet and phone signals is still non-existent or very slow in those areas.
- egor83 13y agoIt's not just a map layer - it's also Gmail, chat and forums GUI (see below in this thread), various Google APIs, Reader, Labs... They managed to get a lot of things right, which is hard. Now not only do they seem to stop getting it right, they actively remove the good things they had built. That's a very disappointing trend, which I hope can still be reversed.
- coin 13y agoYes, like the dreaded Gmail new compose
- milesokeefe 13y agoI quite like it.
- coldtea 13y agoThere's always one.
- rpgmaker 13y agoI haven't liked any of the changes they have made to gmail in the past three years. Literally.
- officemonkey 13y agoYes. Or MapQuest. Hey, this is the internet. We all switched from AltaVista to Google and from MapQuest to Google Maps, and from Yahoo mail to Gmail. If Google sucks, vote with your feet. It's really no harder than changing a bookmark.
- glesica 13y agoWhen changing mail providers (I chose Fastmail) I made sure to pick a service that would let me use my own domain. I now "own" my email address, so in the future switching will be even easier. I suggest others do the same.
- mathgladiator 13y agoThis is great for the few like us that enjoy having a personal domain, but most people don't which is very unfortunate. It's very-painful for most people to migrate email providers.
- glesica 13y agoI wonder if there's a business opportunity there: make it easy to own a personal domain name and use it with various other services. So instead of having to monkey with MX records for mail, you just say "I'm using provider X and here is my account info.". If distributed social networks ever go anywhere (a dubious proposition, I'll admit) then automatic configuration/hosting could be bundled, with all the necessary configuration and DNS records done for the user. Of course this magical company could go bust, but even if it did, the users would technically be able to migrate to one or more other providers without losing anything, including URLs.
- icebraining 13y agoThe problem is that the popular free providers don't offer domain hosting, and the paid ones that do (e.g., Google Apps, FastMail) already handle that for you, if you let them.
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- fennecfoxen 13y agoYou love Quality? You'll really love new-Maps, then! http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/29472.aspx http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/29472.aspx Grand Central Astoria Station. :P
- AsymetricCom 13y agoBing maps is quite good.
- bjelkeman-again 13y agoLooks like we'll be moving to MapBox.