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#GoogleMaps

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appgefahren.de - Tech-Blog

Bei vielen von uns wird für die #Navigation wohl eine der beliebten Navi-Apps wie #AppleMaps oder #GoogleMaps zum Einsatz kommen. Dass es gerade auch im Hinblick auf quelloffene und community-basierte Anwendungen anders gehen kann, beweist die neue #Navi-#App @CoMaps, die seit Ende des letzten Monats im deutschen #AppStore zum #Download bereit steht und komplett kostenlos genutzt werden kann.

Alle Infos: appgefahren.de/?p=382058

Banner von CoMaps mit einer Berglandschaft im Hintergrund und drei Screenshots mit Karten- und Navigationsansichten aus der App im Vordergrund.
#appgefahren#Apple#AppleBlog
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boredsquirrel

4. (Progressive) #Webapps.

While iOS has blocked this feature for years, locking developers to their pricey and walled #AppStore, on Android every Website in your browser can be used like a native app.

#Meta ironically blocks this aggressively, locking Video Playback and more to their App™. Other apps like #GoogleMaps, #TikTok or #Shitter annoy you with popups, but offer often reduced versions like this.

Webapps are WAY more isolated, cannot execute random code and more.

#PWAs

7/8

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Agnes

#OpenStreetMap for #Portland is so extremely outdated that I discovered there used to be a restaurant called Daruma Sushi that closed in 2019 in the same space that is currently hosting Feral. Orange & Blossom was missing entirely. I tried to update both, but since #OrganicMaps didn’t let me log in, I’m not sure if my updates will sit in a queue somewhere…

In any case, #OSM is far from being a reliable #GoogleMaps replacement, unless you somehow already know exactly where you’re going 🙃

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Rainer AI Blockchain Rehak 4.0

„#GoogleMaps hat vornehmlich die israelischen Siedlungen eingezeichnet“

„Das #Westjordanland ist übersät mit illegalen israelischen Siedlungen, die Palästinenser nicht betreten dürfen. Es gibt auch Zufahrtsstraßen zu den Siedlungen, die eigentlich auf palästinensischem Gebiet sind, die Palästinenser aber nicht befahren dürfen.

Die Besatzung ist ein fortlaufender Prozess. Die Mauer wird jeden Tag weitergebaut. Neue Siedlungen entstehen, andere werden ausgeweitet. Die Landschaft ändert sich täglich. Straßen und Orte werden umbenannt, wo du gestern noch langfahren konntest, ist heute eine Schranke.

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Google Maps schlägt dir Straßen vor, die du als Palästinenserin in #Palästina nicht befahren kannst. Die App setzt also quasi voraus, dass die Leute, die sich dort bewegen, nicht die Leute sind, die eigentlich dort leben und deren Land das ist.“

perspective-daily.de/article/3

Perspective DailyDieses Interview wird dein Bild von Palästina verändernBy Katharina Wiegmann
#Israel#Google#Westbank
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sgt1372

#GoogleMaps

Just noticed that #Google finally got around to obscuring the #StreetView of my house on Google Maps after multiple requests. ☺️

Don't know exactly how long this took but it took more than a couple of days which is suggested in some articles about the process.

I've made the request multiple times over several years but haven't checked on the last those requests for at least a year. Stopped checking because nothing was done after a week so when I checked on the earlier requests. 🤷

If you'd like to do this for your house, there are many articles telling you how to do it. This is just one of them:

lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-blu

Lifehacker · How to Blur Your House on Google Maps Street ViewYour house is probably visible on Google Maps' Street View, but it doesn't have to be. You can blur your house on Street View at any time.
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Ansgar Hegerfeld

Kümmere mich eigentlich lieber um die Aktualität von #OpenStreetMap, aber gelegentlich muss ich dann doch auch bei #GoogleMaps korrigierend eingreifen. Damit lässt sich der Autoverkehr normalerweise hervorragend lenken 🧐

Sobald Google Maps eine Straße z.B. als gesperrt für den Kraftverkehr anerkennt, verschwindet dieser von jetzt auf gleich fast komplett. Die extrem hohe Quote der Menschen, die einfach nach Navi fahren, hatte mich anfangs doch etwas überrascht.

#Frankfurt#Verkehrswende#Navigation
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Rob Pegoraro

Driver misdirections: Why can’t Apple and Google read this sign in Arlington?

Machine vision has advanced immensely over the last decade, but Apple and Google’s map apps remain functionally illiterate when it comes to a big green sign at the top of an onramp to U.S. 50 eastbound from North Courthouse Road in Arlington.

That sign’s message is reasonably simple compared to some of the signage that I’ve seen:

NO ACCESS TO

     N Rolfe St
     N Rhodes St
     N Queen St

Those are the next three streets available at the next offramp east on 50, aka Arlington Boulevard, which starts just under 1,000 feet from the top of that offramp. The sign, apparently present since the reconstruction of this interchange in a less crash-inducing layout wrapped in 2014, is there to remind drivers that they have too little room to scoot from that left-lane onramp across three lanes of traffic to the right-lane exit.

Apple Maps and Google Maps, however, disagree despite presenting clear photos of this sign in their Look Around and Street View perspectives. Punch in driving directions from someplace west of that on-ramp to a location near that off-ramp, and these navigation apps will suggest this unwise routing as their first or second option.

I belated realized this error not because I was spot-checking directions in those apps, but because like a dope I followed Google’s advice—even though I should also know how to read big green signs by roads.

Realizing my mistake and Google’s led me to try to report the errant advice. But Google now makes that its own wayfinding adventure because you can’t report a problem in the Google Maps app for Android or iOS—you know, where you’d encounter incorrect directions in everyday use.

Instead, you have to recreate the directions in the desktop-Web version of Google Maps, click the “Details” link below the route and then click on the smallest text visible—the “Send Product Feedback” link at the bottom right corner—to see “Report a problem.”

To its credit, Apple Maps does let you flag incorrect routing in its iPhone app: Scroll down to the end of the faulty directions, tap “Report an Issue,” tap the step with the wrong turn, select the category of mistake, write your description and upload a photo if that can help make your case.

I’ve now done that in both Apple and Google Maps. But if this error really has lingered this many years, I’m not going to bank on getting a thank-you acknowledgment from either company next week. Or maybe ever.

The sign visible at the top of the on-ramp to U.S. 50 eastbound from N. Courthouse Road tells drivers not to try to take the next offramp, with its exit sign visible just down the highway. The evening sun lights up the scene.
#AppleMaps#Arlington#ArlingtonBoulevard
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