European Google Maps alternatives:
- Magic Earth
- Organic Maps
- GeoVelo (specific for bikes)
- OSMand
Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News
Submitted 2 days ago by melp@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/02/14/microsoft-follows-google-on-a-controversial-decision/
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Scrollone@feddit.it 2 days ago
melp@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Magic Earth Organic Maps GeoVelo (specific for bikes) OSMand
Nice! Thanks!
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Yandex maps
/s
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 days ago
lol yeah maybe we should be more specific when we talk about Europe
sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 2 days ago
Magic Earth is also pretty good for cycling, though I will be checking out GeoVelo
Teknevra@literature.cafe 2 days ago
Idk if it’s European, but there’s also Sygic Maps
HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Wait so it also shows that in europe?
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 days ago
No, it shows Gulf of Mexico. The commenter just wanted to give some good alternatives that people could use!
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 days ago
I was lead to believe that this bullshit was limited to the country where the Orange Fascist is in charge.
Not so.
This screenshot was just taken by me in Australia.
Idiotic renaming of a body of water triggered by the Orange Fascist in charge
sanzky@beehaw.org 2 days ago
it is worse when you notice than other places with two names do not use that schema.
Google maps shows “Rio Bravo” only when in spanish not Rio Bravo (Rio Grande).
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Wait till people find out much of it runs north-south through New Mexico, which is part of the U.S., hence having to specify that fact on their license plates, and despite fans of the Terminator franchise having seen the gorge bridge just out of Taos. The bridge over the Rio Grande just south of Colorado.
You want to get me going on rivers? Colorado’s my starting point, How the hell do we have two of those?
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
It’s been changed in the Geographic Names Information System which is the official government system used for naming geographic things in the USA. Every US-based mapping system will eventually pull in the update.
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 2 days ago
The comment you replied to was talking about regions outside of the USA. Specifically Australia who do not use a US based mapping system.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 days ago
Stupid timeline. We’re back in the times of kings naming the seas
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Welcome to the United States of Licking Trumps Asshole
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I feel like this and a few other moves by the Trumpler admin are meant to divide everyone’s attention from the stuff that’s really going to destroy the planet as we know it.
Vaggumon@lemm.ee 2 days ago
ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 2 days ago
Y’all’s arguing about semantics, meanwhile USA becomes an absolute monarchy in the latest EO.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 days ago
While true, that’s another topic of discussion.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 2 days ago
What’s the problem with calling it Gulf of America? To me that just seems like an objectively better name. You guys do realise that Mexico is in America too, right?
pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 days ago
the problem is not with the change: the problem is with the implementation… we have international organisations that manage things like place names, and the president of the US doesn’t have the authority to just go ahead and change an internationally agreed upon thing. in the US? perhaps… but it’s bat shit insane that globally we now see both names. it’s like trump saying everything globally has to default to fahrenheit and feet and google etc just complying without question
but also, as other commenters have mentioned: there’s no real issue with the original name; it’s just nationalism and racism that triggered the change
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Google and Apple are US companies though. I’m not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name like that and I doubt the people in Mexico for example will start calling it that either. It seems like people are making out this to be a bigger issue than it is. Anyone is free to keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico either. I still call Facebook, Twitter and Turkey by their original names too and I’ve yet to encounter a single person not understanding what I’m talking about.
Steve@communick.news 2 days ago
Yah. I’m torn. On the one hand it’s kind of stupid and pointless to change the names of things. On the other hand If your changing the name, Gulf of America is probably the best option. The real point of doing it is to give the media something marketable to talk about instead of the more boringly important things going on. Which again tonight, gets me dangerously close to a rant about the shitty media we have.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I don’t think it’s the act that’s bad, just the undertones and the guy it’s coming from. Same thing with Mariann Budde 😂
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
As far as I can tell, none of them are actually doing it right? The presidential order to rename the Gulf of Mexico was just for the portion of it that’s considered part of the US. The rest of it is supposed to still be called the Gulf of Mexico.
melp@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Well… at least one non beehawer found themselves on my block list. Anyway.
ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Just brilliant. You created a very mild and civil honeypot for fascist sympathizers.
“I think ze golfen ze amerikkkanner ist ein guten name, Herr Garbistch”
🤳😯✍️✍️✍️
melp@beehaw.org 2 days ago
It’s weird they’re in the tech community more than the US politic one.
Jack@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Because they blocked you? Maybe they don’t want to see posts from people who don’t summarize the articles in the subject/title?
(The current subject is from the source, “Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News”.)
melp@beehaw.org 1 day ago
No. I blocked them.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Just a reminder that alternatives like open street maps and Here WeGo exist and are not taking marching orders from Trump.