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[–] AskThinkingTim@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This has never crossed my mind. I wouldn’t mind an irl open world with an open map option and fog of war.

Edit: grammar error

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kind of terrifying since I use maps pretty much exclusively for places I haven't been to yet, so I'm not totally unfamiliar when I go there

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 1 week ago

Gotta get a quest to drop a POI out there

You could make it a "mode" of sorts. Like a map overlay that will temporarily cover everything you havent been to.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This would actually encourage me to explore new areas of my city.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I've been doing exactly that with an app called Fog of World.

5 years of progress so far.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

$30 👀 I’d need a lot of convincing…

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[–] Denvil@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In the last 5 years, I've left my state one time that I remember

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 37 points 1 week ago

What about Streetcomplete? You explore and help others at the same time...

https://streetcomplete.app/

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You should have to fill it in by climbing a big tower

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 13 points 1 week ago

someone should make PR in CoMaps or OwnTracks for this feature

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Had that (for OpenStreetMap) on my long list of project ideas, including quests you could take to some random monuments. Maybe one day.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Combine that with Street Complete and you have a game

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There is an app of fdroid and google play called street complete. Its basically quests to fill in local missing data on openstreet map

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[–] diegantobass@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Anyone aware of an offline local alternative to https://fogofworld.app/ ?

[–] diegantobass@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There was some confusion regarding what I meant by "offline".

Offline meant off the internet. What I actualy meant, was that I can log my gps coordinates, cool. But I'd love a geographic map app that would be able to display those in a "fog of war" styled map, without internet connection.

I was under the impression that fog of world was collecting users' data. Another user suggested the possibility of opting out. That'd be great. A fully open source android implementation of the concept would be better, but hey, I have work tomorrow...

[–] AnExerciseInFalling@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Dawarich has support for this. Be aware it is under very active development and has semi-frequent breaking changes though (No data loss, just manual steps to upgrade).

For example, here's my recent trip to Austin for the Counter-Strike Major:

And with regular routing:

It technically works offline because you can record your location and load it afterwards, but I use it by ingesting my location that is tracked by Home Assistant

[–] diegantobass@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Hey, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, and sorry for the late reply.

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Please add fast travel for places you've been in the next patch

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I would absolutely love that. Fuck fast travel, let me explore!

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A map that only knows my home PC, work PC, and the 2 routes in-between?

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What else would you need it for?

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

like i need to tell google more about me

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn’t need to be made by Google. It could be self hosted. Be the change you want to see in the world 😉

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[–] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fog of World has existed for a long time

[–] needanke@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Does that work without gsf/google maps?

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Does this exist as Open Source with OSM instead of Google?

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[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guarantee Google already has a fog of war map of every place you've ever been

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days ago

I doubt it but I'm willing to play. How?

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I want that

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

OK, let me get this correct. The idea is to make the map not show places you have not been, the map that one uses to tell you how to get to places you have not yet been?

Am I missing something here, do people use google maps to go to place they have been already? Why?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (9 children)
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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

some people are dogshit with directions, or it's a place they went once.

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[–] BackwardsUntoDawn@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this is just the Waze map editor

your editable region is just around streets you've been on

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’d love this, but like Hero’s Path so it knows everywhere you’ve ever been, like the time I somehow made it back to Merton from wherever the night bus dropped me off drunk that time.

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