I’ve been proudly using Lineage OS with microg on my phone for a while now, and while it wasn’t ideal, it was good for my daily use.

Now that i’m traveling, however, i really miss some important features, like a properly working geolocation service (i’m using the Mozilla one and it’s slow and buggy), and a proper navigator, sad to say that google maps works just too well for certain things like buses or trains.

Magic earth was okay till i moved with car, i could get a position on google maps and then get there with my car and the navigator was working good, however when i need to move by foot or transports is terrible, it takes 10 minutes to find your position approximatively, only working with mobile data, and it doesn’t follow you when you move…

So i found myself in some unhappy situations where i would need to rely on someone else’s phone to not get lost in a city or to call an uber to my right location. I also got lost when i needed to move only by walking. Of course you can get wherever you want with older methods, like asking to people or signs, but sometimes you just need quick solutions that are reliable.

Is there any real way to use gmaps unonimously except that with the containerized version that graphebe offers?

I do not really want to buy a Pixel and give google more money.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know if it’s missing any features or whatever but what about the web version? maps.google.com works fine in Firefox for me. For turn by turn navigation you’ll need something else, but you can use Google Maps to get the address of your destination and plug it into something like OSMAnd or Organic Maps for that.

    Location services are hard and I don’t think there’s a good alternative to Google’s services. For privacy preservation can switch over to GPS only, which should almost anywhere (at the cost of more battery life). If it takes forever to get a lock, you may have disabled AGPS somehow, and you may want to look into enabling thst again.

    • dontblink@feddit.itOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah the web version is cool but it doesn’t give you the navigation and can’t find your position, usually i wouldsearch for a destination in webview and open it in another nav, but that doesn’t work well if you are by foot for example…

      But that might actually be the case tho, because i don’t get any position without my cellphone data active (only with GPS it can’t find a position) that might explain why it gets so long sometimes.