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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[–] 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 21 hours ago

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

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."