MapQuest app works perfectly fine. Just switched easy as pie.
Obligatory mention of CoMaps. Open source, as free, etc.
As part of an attempt to research more single-use devices (as a way to help focus attention and reduce distractions), I recently learned that there are a variety of interesting e-ink tablets and phones sold by companies like Boox. I’m starting to realize that there are really compelling alternatives on the market that offer different kinds of value than Apple’s visionless product line.
l’ve postured in the past about replacing my Apple products, but for the fist time I’m starting to feel comfortable with the prospect of doing with really interesting and different devices. My iphone is still pretty new, but my ipad (which i use a lot) is probably due for retirement this year. This latest cowardice from Apple may have just pushed me put of the walled garden for good.
I hope they get inundated with “reports” of an incorrect name. I mean they’ll ignore them but still…
Use CoMaps folks. FOSS, offline, and supports privacy (which is why it is an offshoot of Organic Maps)
What is wrong with organic maps?
Organic Maps itself is fine (which is what CoMaps is based from), the issue is the shareholders making money and not beimg transparent with the revenue.
From CoMaps themselves
CoMaps started to address the concerns and dissatisfaction within the Organic Maps community regarding governance, transparency, and the potential for shareholder profit at the expense of the community. The goal is to build a truly community-driven, transparent, and not-for-profit navigation app.
Great info, thank you!
I like my maps with GMOs
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
I’ve been using OsmAnd (uses OpenStreetMaps) on my iPhone and it’s been pretty great. Uninstalled Apple Maps so I don’t have to deal with this bullshit.
I’m always for more OSM usage especially as a (casual) OSM mapper but you’re a rube.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1206310
I think you should look up the definition of “rube”.
Why are they a rube?
Per the link in your screenshot OSM is following the standard of using the GNIS official name, while also keeping the displayed name as the common name until and if common usage on both sides of the border begins to reflect the official name in GNIS.
Precedent from the Gulf of Mexico/“Gulf of America” discussion as well as accepted OSM convention would suggest that once GNIS is updated (which it appears it is already),
official_name:en-US=*should be added/changed toLake America, butname=*left as is unless and until common usage on the ground on both sides of the border shifts to prefer the “Lake America” name (which seems very unlikely).Note: emphasis is mine
Apple gave the president a gold iPhone. Surprised?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
And here I was looking at getting a new iPhone. Guess I’ll be switching to android.
You should open Google maps….
Guess I’ll be switching to Android.
By all means, buy a device whose operating system is designed by an advertising company who also sucks Trump’s cock. After all, Google caved on this before Apple did.
John Appleseedless
This bodes well for them getting an exemption from the ban on Red Chinese RAM.
They really seem to want to shake me out as a customer. The union busting, the trump asslicking, and now this.
Well, happy to oblige. Already replaced my macbook air with a pallet unit lifebook, and have my sight on the new framework laptops for the trackpad haptics and general principle of serviceability, even at the premium. I was an apple customer, I was always willing to pay for the premium to get a more consistent, robust quality experience. Framework really saw the writing on the wall, and I love it. Finally there are starting to be actually valid options for running Linux with the qol of apple hardware besides asahi.
On phone frontier I have zero clue where to go, but this is really just sealing the deal of me dropping apple there too whenever this one breaks. Motorola seems promising though, we’ll see…
Same. I was feeling them out for the next gen, seeing if they were going to stick to this “privacy” tagline they keep banging on about but this isn’t a good sign.
Man I love my Fairphone. I think it’s worth considering based on what I read of your ethics and tech proficiency
Yeah that’s a big one on the list definitely, thanks!
Ive got a Motorola Edge 2022 and the phone in general I have no gripes with. The battery could be a lot better with this model. Looking forward to new phone with Graphene if they actually do that right.
I mean, that was kinda inevitable to be honest. Apple went with Gulf of America, now they’re going with Lake America. If Trump decided to rename Canada into America+ they’d probably go with it as well.
I’m much more interested in what having a hardware guy as their CEO will do to their products. Obviously he’s just as much of an AI sheep as anyone else in Silicon Valley right now but maybe at least we’ll get some interesting new hardware as well?
Eh. It should just keep its original name.
The whole thing kinda reminds me of Uluru, that still officially has both names… What did native americans call the Gulf of Mexico?
Still says Lake Ontario on my Apple Maps here in Europe and iOS even updated yesterday.
Yeh they are two faced bootlickers
My Apple Maps still says Lake Ontario.
Edit: Nevermind, when you zoom in it changes to Lake America.
I rarely ever use Apple Maps, I guess I’ll be using Wayz and Mapquest from now on.
Waze also belongs to google and also uses GNIS data for place names in the US.
CoMaps is an open source option
