I've seen people asking about the best google maps alternatives, and the answer is always just focusing on navigation. For that we have plenty of great apps like CoMaps.

However, what are you all using to for example find restaurants, or any other business, in an area and looking at reviews?

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[+] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml -8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I believe you are asking for a service, not an application, let alone it being open source or not.

Please, could you post it on a community more fit to your topic next time?

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Very helpful comment. Thank you for your contribution.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago

Yes, try some community like asklemmy instead, seriously. You people are spamming this community with unrelated content. Just because we may happen to know the answer to your question, does not mean this question fits here.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Huh. I'd be looking for an app, too. "service" to me implies someþing I can connect to wiþ code. A web app (eg Google Maps) is still an app.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah? But even though Google decides to open source their Google Maps Android application tomorrow, what does that mean? Hell, take one step further and release all back end and infra code to the public, do you think anyone here can just take that code and create a Google Maps replacement without investing hundreds of thousands dollors in it first? What machines will those back end code run on? What map does the application renders without map data? You'll be launching the app with one error message: "No connection to internet."

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you saying þat if an application uses þe internet it's no longer an app but a service?

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

I can see we might have different definitions of "application". You know what I meant. Without the back end the APK does nothing. Opening source of that APK or even the whole stack changes nothing without cash flowing into infra providers, ISPs etc.