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mapy.com looks like a rather tourist-centered rendering of OpenStreetMap ? Hiking/bicycle trails seem to be featured very prominently. Pretty :)
They was and still are great tourist maps (also offline maps) but they added few years ago a car navigation app with live traffic notifications and reports (like Waze have). And it is really nice! I stopped using Waze and switched to maps.com.
fun fact: mapy means “maps” in Czech. This software is created by seznam, Czech email provider and search engine (seznam.cz). Czechs default to this software (with seznam meaning “a list”). In the past I used to dislike it, but now, with me liking non US software, I find it as a great competitor to Google and other US based companies
Nice! If you have some webspace you could consider installing Matomo for analytics.
on the search front, you might like to check out SearxNG. It can be self hosted, or you can use a pre-existing site. one such site is searx.space (don't know if this instance is euro or not). It's an aggregate engine, and it collates from so many different sites that are customisable
Nice :)
I am still using Brave Search (just the search engine). I actually opted for it over the European alternatives. As far as I know, it is the only search engine that offers personalized ranked results, which helps ensure the feed is not flooded with American sites, which typically dominate results in European search engines as well.
E.g., I've downranked Reddit so it is less likely to appear as a top result in search.
If anyone is interested in reading about it
Similar features could likely be implemented by operators in other search engines (-site:reddit or similar), but I haven't explored that.
Love mapy.com! I use them for years for world tourist maps but now also for Waze like live traffic reports and notifications. Also switched to ecosia.com, Mastodon and Mistral! I am open for new tips!
My Google Maps alternative is organic maps https://organicmaps.app/de/ just love it
My Organic Maps alternative is CoMaps https://www.comaps.app/.
Some context: https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/.
Thanks I didn't know that
Maybe because I'm in Japan, but mapy is unfortunately useless. Waited 30+ seconds and it wouldn't load any map here (or even when I zoomed and moved a bit from Germany initially). Is really like to replace Google maps but it's rough (it's also what I use for public transit routes and schedules)
Try with openstreetmap. Maybe it works better for Japan.
OSM is good for some things, but is missing a lot in Japan last time I checked. It also has no transit, sadly. It also has no English (edit: for map labels, I mean) which is a problem if one's Japanese isn't native level (and even my wife who is native doesn't know how to read place names in some areas, particularly in Hokkaido).
That does remind me that I should see if there's anything I can add again, though.
Use Elinks or Lynx directly in the terminal 😎
Is it practical? No! Does it make your life easier? The opposite. But you can sidestep the whole browser industry while feeling like the biggest contrarian hacker kiddie out there and that's a premium experience fellas
Can anyone recommend an app for finding routes using public transport? I am currently using Google Maps, but I'd like to find an alternative, preferably not US/big tech. Tried mapy.com, it didn't work.
I like HERE WeGo lately, haven't really noticed differences for public transportation with Google Maps. I only have experience using it in my country, though.
I love citymapper, however it only covers a limited number of urban areas, is UK based and most importantly got bought by Via Transportation in 2023 (US based).
It seems like many city/regional operators have their own apps, this might be an option for you ?
You might also want to have a look at the apps that use transitous.org (listed on their homepage). Amongst them is cartes.app, which is a really exciting open source gmaps alternative wannabe, hosted in France (see cartes.app/roadmap for more technical details). Although it's still a wip, they've made great strides recently and I've started using it to replace some of GMaps' use cases. The only issue is, errrr, there's no English interface for now :) It's still a small team, so they're keeping internationalisation for later.
From my experience public transport was super hard to find a good solution too. I ended up going with Citymapper which works amazingly well. It's a British company from London but unfortunately uses Google Maps API I believe, so not truly independent.
Haven't found anything even close to a replacement though.