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Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app (www.engadget.com)
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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It very much has routing, route saving, turn by turn instructions, voice instructions and more. Idk what you mean.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I couldn’t get it to work. Is it only in Europe that works?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I dont use apple devices so i cant test it, but i thought it would be identical to the android experience.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried 4 of these damn things over the past few days 2 were ad filled nonsense. This looks like a reskin of something else I tried. It doesn’t have turn by turn.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you sure you are using the app that i linked to? Because you can clearly see in the screenshots on the app store that it has turn by turn instructions.

Comaps is a fork of organic maps but neither has ads and they are basically identical feature wise.

Turn by turn only works when you have location turned on of course.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay don’t turns out I had to download the maps first and then it kinda works. Voice selection isn’t working right but will likely be fixed eventually. I just need to get used to it. Thanks.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah yeah i didnt think of that, my bad i guess thats not obvious coming from normal map apps. Yes its intended to be completely offline capable for privacy and so you can go hiking in the middle of nowhere.