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I wanted to love this open-source maps app but I’m going back to Google

There's a specific kind of guilt that comes from being a privacy-conscious Android user. You buy the hardware, you aggressively debloat the device (or even root it), and find polished open-source ...

I left Google Maps behind for a free alternative that doesn't track me (or drain my phone battery)

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...
Yahoo

Meta, Microsoft, Amazon joint maps venture shares first open dataset

Overture Maps Foundation Wednesday released its first open-source maps dataset to compete with Google Maps. Overture is a collaboration of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom founded in 2022. Image ...
Computer Weekly

TomTom Maps widens scope to integrate open ‘super source’ data

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Geolocation technology specialist TomTom (TOM2) has told software application developers focused on mapping ...
Computer Weekly

Overture Maps Foundation charts open maps datasets

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The Overture Maps Foundation is described as a “collaborative effort” to enable current and next-generation ...
Technical

A caffeine-fueled engineer’s quest to put every Pittsburgh coffee shop on the map

With more than 140 cafes scattered across its many neighborhoods, Pittsburgh has earned its ranking as one of the nation’s top coffee cities. Now, one local software engineer wants to put it on the ...
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I ditched Google Maps for this free alternative that doesn't track me - or drain my battery

Privacy-first: no tracking or data collection. Offline maps and turn-by-turn directions save battery. Free, open-source app for Android and iOS. Every month, Google ...