BlueSky Post.
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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
While live traffic might be a hurdle (even though Magic Earth, despite not being FOSS, has good enough data, at least for me), why not contribute to OSM yourself?
I do have street complete and contribute for my neighborhood, but there just aren't enough other ppl nearby contributing to be useable. There are a lot of missing roads in my town.
For me, the main advantage of Google maps is the traffic preview. Mostly used daily to find fastest road between home and workplace