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Magic Earth is an alternative to Waze and Google Maps with crowdsourced traffic and road hazard information

As part of a , I've been hoping to find an alternative to and Maps - a navigation app that can tell me about slowdowns, hazards, and speed traps based on reports from other users. Today, I learned about Magic Earth.

It's proprietary, but not from FAANG or a company subject to the government of China, Russia, or Five Eyes countries. It collects minimal user data and has a good privacy policy. There are versions for both Android and iOS, and the Android version works without Google services.

https://www.magicearth.com/

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zak,
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@gelberhut I have yet to give it a rigorous test. Every navigation tool I've used heavily has had a few bad drives so I wouldn't dismiss it based on such a small sample.

zak,
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@vittoria666 That's surprising since it does report feature availability in the USA and Canada. It doesn't seem to have a regional restriction on Google Play so maybe there's a delay on Apple's side.

I hope American iOS users won't have to wait until the EU forces Apple to allow sideloading.

zak,
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@nodsocket I've used it. Organic Maps as well.They're great apps and I really appreciate their ability to work entirely offline.

They don't have real-time traffic information, road hazards, and speed traps. It's nice having an option that does without being from FAANG.

zak, to cats
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Staring into your soul and testing user/community name collision

Someone raised an interesting question on Lemmy: what happens when a community and user have the same name, and someone tags that name from non-Lemmy software.

@cats is about to find out.

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