1w ago

I cant wait to remove all the american products from my life!

The alternatives to Intel/AMD/Nvidia, Visa/Mastercard/American Express/Discover and IOS/Android need to be more developed.

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The thing which really stops me from Google Maps alternatives is the lack of reviews. Very useful.
Plus, goddamn I wish they would modernize their UIs.
- There's an issue open for the Organic Maps project to implement Mangrove Reviews
- Yeah, that's a big one. Have you considered Here Wego? Its european and integrates TripAdvisor reviews (yes, US I know. Still better than feeding Google Imo). It doesn't have everything but for restaurants and POIs it usually has the info you need if you live in a bigger city.
  
  Just took a look but the reviews for the app seem not great.
  
  It's one of those apps where you can't go by the reviews.
  Basically they changed the interface quite a bit recently and so old customers got upset. But I use the app daily and they are seriously improving it to the point that I'm relying less and less on Google Maps. They keep adding more and more business details to the app.
  If we were having this conversation a few months ago I would have said something different, so really the Improvements have been noticeable lately. I recommend that you give it a go for a couple of days at least and see how it serves you.
  
  That’s what I use, works pretty good so far.
  
  Ah gotcha. Strabic me completely misunderstood your comment lol.
  
  Nah I'm not OP so you got it right, just meant to second your comment that Here WeGo is pretty darn good at least in Europe.
- OSMAnd is pretty good.
- Yup. It's tough. People don't understand it this way but Google Maps is actually a social network, in addition to the navigation features. It's an absolutely huge plus and I wish someone else would integrate the social features. It has given them the largest and most helpful worldwide POI database that exists, afaik.

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