Google Maps has become an eyesore

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  • omapsapp

    🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

  • > Sadly, they don't even attempt to have public transport schedules on the main maps, whereas Google has even added inter-city buses in some places

    What Google is doing is to integrate public transport data (often in GTFS format). It is not imported directly (note that in many cities timetables change weekly, for example as result of construction).

    There is some ongoing work to build similar thinks for OSM-using software, for example Organic Maps is at least trying: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues?q=is%3Aiss... (I bet that pull requests would be welcome, especially if discussed with people developing it)

  • cromite

    Cromite a Bromite fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

  • Bromite is at this point abandonware, try Cromite instead

    https://github.com/uazo/cromite

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  • Openstreetmap

    The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

  • duckduckgo-locales

    Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  • Also duckduckgo has apple maps online too:

    https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=maps&ia=web&iaxm=maps

    Just noticed it recently.

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