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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Magic Earth has traffic and uses OSM data. It’s closed source, but they seem to be one of the better map/navigation companies when it comes to privacy.

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      2 days ago

      Their live traffic data’s comes not from OSM. It is not publicly known what their source is for this data.

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        2 days ago

        They say they use crowdsourced data, presumably from users, then “send it to a provider” to combine with other data. Not ideal, but (hopefully) not Google. LOL

        I don’t think you can have in-house live traffic data without having many million active users. But it would be nice!

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          27 minutes ago

          Garmin has for a long time had live traffic data supplied by municipalities before smartphones became popular. But I’m not sure what you meant by “in-house” (surely not literal!).

    • Onizuka@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 days ago

      Yeah, I know magic earth but as you said, it’s closed source. Also it’s only a navigation app. You can’t easily search and browse restaurants, like with organic maps or Google maps. Not intuitively at least. So you would still need a second app for that.