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Fuck it, why not (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Mobile OSM is a bit like that when it hasn't downloaded the tiles for the regions you don't usually go to.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

I’d love this, but like Hero’s Path so it knows everywhere you’ve ever been, like the time I somehow made it back to Merton from wherever the night bus dropped me off drunk that time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Did you really make it back fully, though? What did you leave behind that night?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago

Please add fast travel for places you've been in the next patch

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Like a train station?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Honestly, I'd rather have them remove all timed quests. Those are the ones that suck the enjoyment out of my travel experiences.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 16 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

someone should make PR in CoMaps or OwnTracks for this feature

[-] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

I want that

[-] [email protected] 44 points 19 hours ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago

Fog of World has existed for a long time

[-] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Does that work without gsf/google maps?

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours ago

like i need to tell google more about me

[-] [email protected] 19 points 18 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 15 hours ago

it IS self-hosted. Look up Dawarich.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 16 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

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 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

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 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] 15 points 18 hours ago

Combine that with Street Complete and you have a game

[-] [email protected] 12 points 19 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

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

this is just the Waze map editor

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

[-] [email protected] 89 points 1 day 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

[-] [email protected] 66 points 23 hours ago

Gotta get a quest to drop a POI out there

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 23 hours ago

This would actually encourage me to explore new areas of my city.

[-] bdonvr 39 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I've been doing exactly that with an app called Fog of World.

5 years of progress so far.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

$30 👀 I’d need a lot of convincing…

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 21 hours ago

What about Streetcomplete? You explore and help others at the same time...

https://streetcomplete.app/

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 21 hours ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 18 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] 17 points 18 hours ago
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[-] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours 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] 1 points 11 hours ago

I have some anxiety just thinking about going though my own recorded position from years ago. Like I know they are collecting it, but that is too much.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 23 hours ago

Anyone aware of an offline local alternative to https://fogofworld.app/ ?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Dawarich has support for this. Be aware it is under very active development and has semi-frequent breaking changes though (No data loss, just manual steps to upgrade).

For example, here's my recent trip to Austin for the Counter-Strike Major:

And with regular routing:

It technically works offline because you can record your location and load it afterwards, but I use it by ingesting my location that is tracked by Home Assistant

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

The github link tells me access denied

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours 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.

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