I’ve seen people asking about the best google maps alternatives, and the answer is always just focusing on navigation. For that we have plenty of great apps like CoMaps.

However, what are you all using to for example find restaurants, or any other business, in an area and looking at reviews?

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    22 hours ago

    I believe you are asking for a service, not an application, let alone it being open source or not.

    Please, could you post it on a community more fit to your topic next time?

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        5 hours ago

        Yes, try some community like asklemmy instead, seriously. You people are spamming this community with unrelated content. Just because we may happen to know the answer to your question, does not mean this question fits here.

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      13 hours ago

      Huh. I’d be looking for an app, too. “service” to me implies someþing I can connect to wiþ code. A web app (eg Google Maps) is still an app.

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah? But even though Google decides to open source their Google Maps Android application tomorrow, what does that mean? Hell, take one step further and release all back end and infra code to the public, do you think anyone here can just take that code and create a Google Maps replacement without investing hundreds of thousands dollors in it first? What machines will those back end code run on? What map does the application renders without map data? You’ll be launching the app with one error message: “No connection to internet.”