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I deleted my google accounts today (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by mertn@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It took a few months preparation but I deleted all my google accounts today, and it feels good.

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[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For the google maps, it helps for us to contribute to Open Street Maps through recording with Mapillary or making edits in our community.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is the app itself ready for prime time yet? Can I use it daily? I live in a small but major city.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you can contribute, that would be great. Especially business names and addresses. The best thing I have found to do is get an address from a place via the internet and plug that into gps-coordinates.net and use the first 7 numbers like 31.12345 -82.12345 into osmand when navigating. Then when i arrive i add it to osm so nobody can claim i stole data from another mapping service.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Sounds good!

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There's several apps to use open street map data. Organic Maps and OSMAnd to name a few. I use a bit of both along with Waze when needed.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thanks! You too LWD!

[–] odium@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've tried them and prefer Magic Earth.

Also, you can contribute to make the maps more complete with Street Complete.

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Magic Earth is proprietary FYI. Good privacy policy and good service, only real problem I have is its not FOSS.

[–] odium@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, that is an issue. I just like its features and UI the most.

If you want a good comparision of the apps you can go to the open street maps wiki