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Fuck it, why not (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

Why can't they just do it like the indexer and work on it like hyperlinks? Blue for not seen and purple for where you've been. Done.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

someone should make PR in CoMaps or OwnTracks for this feature

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

this is just the Waze map editor

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago

Fog of World has existed for a long time

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Does that work without gsf/google maps?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago

like i need to tell google more about me

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

you can request your data from Google (not sure if there's an api), and use that data to make you own map

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Location data is one of the things that you can export through Google takeout , I believe — though I'm not sure what format that would come in.

I don't imagine it would be too hard for a dedicated nerd who is procrastinating other work to write a thing to parse that data and view it in a map based on something more open, like Openstreetmaps.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

it IS self-hosted. Look up Dawarich.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Alain Robert way ahead of us all on that one!

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

same,

would be nice to see where you have exploded,

wonder if google has an API to get that info from your location history and make a web app that shows you how much you've explored

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Dawarich is self-hosted, foss, and lets you track your location history and import from Google or a GPX file, and also you can use the OwnTracks app and connect to it to automatically sync.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I think maps can be used for other stuff than just navigating. You're quite right that this would be useless for actually navigating (which is probably the main purpose of using a map or other navigation software), but it could be a fun concept for looking back on things.

I don't use Google stuff as much nowadays, so they might have gotten rid of it (knowing Google, I wouldn't be surprised), but I remember that one of the sections within the Google maps app was a "Timeline" section. I used that section a few times to check whether I actually went to a particular appointment that was scheduled a month or so prior, or to check which restaurant I ate at when I was last in [city]. I also found it fun to look at the overview of things, like being able to see the pins corresponding to the silly road trip I took with friends a few years ago. It's nice to look back every now and then.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago
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[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

Combine that with Street Complete and you have a game

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 58 minutes ago

You have reminded me that StreetComplete exists. I used to use it a while back, but for the last few years, I lived in an area that was already pretty thoroughly mapped. However, I would wager that where I live now is more sparsely documented; I've only recently moved here, and StreetComplete could be a nice way to become more settled.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

What else would you need it for?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

I already know the 2 routes.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 75 points 10 hours ago

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

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