In posts on X on Monday, Google said it will follow the government's lead in changing the names on its Maps app.
    • Rachelhazideas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I know it’s not deliberate, but phrases like ‘spineless pussies’ are why women don’t feel welcome on lemmy.

      Is lemmy truly a left-leaning platform? Or is it yet another tech-bro circlejerk that cares more about the aesthetics of inclusivity? You all can’t have your cake and it eat it too.

  • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    92·
    3 months ago

    ☞ https://www.openstreetmap.org

    https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/ or https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps

    Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware.

    https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/ or https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand

    This project aims at providing comfortable map viewing and navigation (routing) application for mobile devices. Particular stress lies with complete offline features (via pre-loaded offline map data) or economic internet usage.

    https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/akylas.alpi.maps or https://github.com/Akylas/alpimaps

    Alpi Maps is a map application to help you prepare and enjoy your hike! Get all the info you need before you go, then enjoy all the data offline during your hike.
    • mortimer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      I used Organic Maps on my CalyxOS phone a few days ago to navigate a 200 mile car drive home to the Scottish Highlands, and it worked flawlessly. The first 50 miles were through parts of Fife that I was not familiar with. I left it on for the rest of the journey just to track my progress and test it out. Very impressed with it. Maps are detailed and downloaded to the device for offline use. I’ve finally managed to deGoogle my life completely and will never use another Google product or service again.

    • joostjakob@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      OpenStreetMap also needs to deal with this kind of thing. In this case, several people already tried to add it to the map in some form of other, but generally not as something to actually be shown. There is a looong discussion about it here https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571 . General opinion is that it is (or will be) “the official name that the US says it has”. In OSM you can invent tags for anything, so an object can have many names. Done like this, anyone using the data can still choose to give precedence to any “official US names that are not in common use yet”. Later it may be upgraded ased on if it becomes a common alternative name, just in the US, or maybe beyond. All those options can have their own special tag. And only very motivated data users will ever show it to map users. But if you do a search for Gulf of America, you will be able to find it.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    3 months ago

    Another day another issue that completely doesn’t matter at all to distract from the fact that our politicians are incapable of actually fixing any of our problems.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      incapable of actually fixing

      Or making them worse. He just upped taxes on the lower classes and gave the rich tax breaks… again.

    • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      politicians are incapable of actually fixing any of our problems.

      They’re not incapable, they just don’t care. They’re your problems after all, not theirs.

    • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Politicians are more than capable of solving our problems. They’re paid not to.

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I think you’re overestimating humans. Even if we actually attempted to solve all of our problems I seriously doubt we can. I do wonder how much better things could be though.

        • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I do wonder how much better things could be though.

          What are you talking about? Oligarchs are living their best lives right now. Trump is in office and there is nothing that is not up for sale. If you have big money right now, the US is your oyster. Bend the knee, kiss the ring and grease the palm. You’ll walk away with your own fiefdom. Pay a bit more and he’ll rent an office in the White House.

  • shortrounddev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Can’t imagine wanting to work for big tech these days lol. These companies had insane reputation in the 2010s. People thought working for Google was like working in willy wonka’s chocolate factory. They really squandered their brand.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I’ve been meaning to switch to OpenStreetMaps for a while now and this was the impetus to drop what I was doing and download it immediately. Fuck Google. So sick of this mask off tech plutocracy bullshit.

    Edit: I’ve tried it a few times yesterday and today, and I like it. Works with Android Auto in my car, guidance voice isn’t annoying, directions are accurate. Only complaint is I’m not sure how to search up a business and have the app map me to the nearest location. I need to dig deeper and figure out if I just haven’t found it yet.

    I would 100% drop GMaps if I could hit the directions button on a Google search and have it bring up OSM instead. Google Maps has been bugged for me for years and the maps app never gets the address from a browser search. I have to search for the business or address in the maps app itself for it to work.

    • Karjalan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Given Colbert took the absurdity of conservatism in the US and cranked it up to 11… I’m not surprised it’s becoming reality now.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    Where did this gulf of America thing come from anyway. It just seems so left field. Was it a hot topic among the MAGA or something?

    It just seems like he woke up one day and had an idea 💡

    • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      Someone was saying they want to rename it to work around the laws preventing drilling in the Gulf. It sounds really stupid, but that is on par for this shit show of an administration.

      • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        So call Greenland Northwestern US and bingo! you can drill? Is that really a thought process in those heads?

    • dirthawker0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They’re on this stupid renaming kick. Renaming all the “woke” names back to the “original” white slavers and racists these places originally honored. There are few enough brain cells and energy in government and this is what Trump is making them waste it on. Gulf of THE AmericaS would make sense but obviously the intent is to claim it as the US’s.