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Magic Earth: Privacy friendly maps with turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. (www.magicearth.com)

submitted 1 year ago by spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Organic maps is OK and will get you to where you need to be, but routing is odd. It'll sit you in the worst traffic and doesn't know about road closures etc.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Usually an ~~Any~~ app that knows traffic situation, knows it from your (and other users) location, so it obviously doesn't know about traffic.

Edit: Magic Earth gets this data from a third party: https://lemm.ee/comment/1993667

In openstreetmap it's not recommended to map temporary things, and the map only updates once a month in OrganicMaps, so that's also expected.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don't_map_temporary_events_and_temporary_features

[–] generino@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly Magic Earth claims to get its traffic information from public sources, without using user's locations like google. So no, location data is not strictly necessary for that.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It seems you are right: https://www.magicearth.com/faq/#traffic-and-events-help

Where do you get the traffic and road closure info from?

We get it from a third-party provider; it is not created by us.

It's limited to mostly first world countries: https://www.magicearth.com/feature-availablity/#hd_traffic

But somehow, someone tracking it's users, I can't imagine other way to get data like this. Maybe some carsharing service, company fleet management or something like that.