Comment by ๐Ÿต cquenelle

Re: "No Google? No Maps! No Friends ๐Ÿ"

In: s/Degoogled_Phones

Apologies for being off-topic, but I read the title here and heard: "no sun, no moon, No proper time of day" from Art of Noise - Opus 4. Which is based on the poem November by Thomas Hood.

๐Ÿต cquenelle

2023-12-16 ยท 2 years ago

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๐ŸŒฒ Half_Elf_Monk ยท 2024-02-18 at 08:03:

It'd be great to have a FOSS app that could take a link, access google/apple maps API, and output the geo/physical (user configurable) address to my maps program. Wouldn't have to be manual, and it could run through a proxy/orbot. I don't know of one that exists, but if someone makes it please lmk.

๐Ÿš€ Bazmatazable [OP] ยท 2025-07-13 at 06:43:

The app exists now: https://github.com/jakubvalenta/geoshare

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๐Ÿš€ Bazmatazable:

No Google? No Maps! No Friends ๐Ÿ โ€” TLDR; We rely too heavily on links to convey and discuss locations and it is not universally interoperable. If it wasn't for Google's obvious monopoly we would have solved this already. ๐Ÿ“ฑ I've been using LineageOS for about a year now with very few complaints. I actually installed LineageOS , then GrapheneOS, then LineagOS and then LineageOS again on the same phone as I figured out how to get an OS that meets my needs (and also figure out what I actually *...

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