Some friends of mine have a Google map going where they pin locations of interest (restaurants, etc).
I was wondering if anyone knew of a non-Google project that might allow for something similar? The goal would be to have a shareable map that a group of invited/ allowed users could add locations and possibly notes to.
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I’m not sure how good they are for privacy, but I’ve used Felt before for a couple custom maps
The what3words app is awesome and lets you share any 10-foot square on the planet and save them into lists.
what3words is proprietary and the owner is profit-hungry and litigious, I would recommend avoiding it.
Some basic info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words#Proprietary
Huh, I had no idea that was the case. How does what3words make money exactly? I assume ads but I block those everywhere I use a screen.
Are there any services that do roughly the same thing but are open source?
Basically they license out the system to companies. You can get a rough idea here: https://what3words.com/business
The idea is that by making it free to individuals they build up market familiarity and expectation. Free personal use is just marketing for the paid product. Then they can turn to businesses and convince them that they should offer their system as a service and charge them for it.
The closest alternative is probably Plus Codes. They are driven by Google but are free to use for everything with a pretty plain and simple Terms of Use.
Instead of words they use an alphanumeric encoding. The main downside is that this can be less memorable but the upside is that it works for users of all languages and you can shorten the codes by using a Country or City reference as well as control the precision.
This has been my worry that some big tech company buys it out. There is latitude and longitude. But its not as easy to remember.
You could share a location
The goal would be to have a collection of many locations
https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/
https://framacarte.org
english ☞ https://framacarte.org/abc/en/
umap on french servers, and umap is between other things an API on top of open streetmap…
Is that correct?
seems like it
framasoft is an organization that’s proposing alternatives to google “services” ☞ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
ok, thanks !
Looks good but I didn’t see an app. Is there one?
This looks very interesting; Will look into it! Thank you.
The best option is probably using a geo: URL. This should open in all devices in their favourite mapping application. Example. If you want to link to a specific store or similar beyond just a location you can add a “query” which some apps will use to highlight that. Example.
Another decent option is Plus Codes. These are a bit shorter and easier to manage but lack a URL format as far as I can tell. MJ75+P3 Toronto, Ontario.
You can also just link to an alternative service such as Open Street Maps. This avoids Google but still imposes a particular service on others.
Clicking your example links does nothing for me :(
You can just share links to maps, OpenStreetMaps has a bunch of different mobile apps, for example, Organic Maps is a good one. Links to OSM look like this: https://osm.org/go/zrfyVQn8--?node=164979149
+1 for Organic Maps. Just back from a road trip, used OSM via a browser, this is much better.
Offline capabilities is the killer feature for me. I don’t have much bandwidth on my mobile data plan, being able to access maps without internet connection is incredibly good.
Organic Maps (the app) lets you download maps of various areas ahead of time
Yea, I know. Fucked up my wording a bit while trying to explain why I’m using the app.
I believe NextCloud has this ability