Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate

spacehulk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Serious question: What do you do about maps/navigation? I travel a bit and that’s the one thing I can’t find out of the big tech ecosystem.

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  • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We used to have bits of paper with lines representing geography

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There’s still standalone GPS units.

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  • spacehulk@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can buy a small gps (bunch on amazon) to stick to your windshield or dash. Its what i had before android, and they still apply.

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  • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Mapquest was how we used to do it. Essentially, you would have a list of directions. If you get lost, you go backwards a bit and then… ask someone where to go lol.

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  • black0ut@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Paper maps and map books still exist, and they’re pretty useful for navigation. If you stay at hotels, they usually give you some simple maps of the area with the most important features highlighted.

    If you still want to use online maps, OSM (Open Street Maps) is a great project that doesn’t depend on any big tech maps. It also works completely offline if your frontend allows downloading maps. CoMaps is a good client for phones. You can contribute to OSM yourself if you miss anything.

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    • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I second comaps. Sucks for public transport tbh but works great for walking/cycling/cars. For public transport I use Offi Directions, but it mostly just supports the APIs of German and Austrian public transport companies

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