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Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour
(www.androidauthority.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
And unfortunately, for maps, it's basically just Apple and Google. I'm trying to get used to OSM, but it just isn't easy to do the things I want to do: find directions to a store.
MapQuest is still a thing. Bing maps... exists. Wave, even though owned by Google, hasn't been fucked yet.
Magic Earth is another open source alternative besides OSM.
Magic Earth uses OSM map data.
osm sucks at addresses. The only way I can use it for navigation is doing google to coordinate conversion and just saving all the places. I haven't seen this new google change but we'll see if its enough to make me drop the last google service I use.