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Magic Earth - Completely Free and Privacy Respecting Turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps for iOS and Android (www.magicearth.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Magic Earth uses OpenStreetMap data and a powerful search engine to offer you the optimal routes for driving, biking, hiking, and public transportation. They don't track you, nor do they profile you. They don't trade in your personal data, and they don't collect it (as stated in the Apple app privacy statement).

Interestingly it also has an AI function built in if you activate the camera to use it as a dashcam, with Driver Assistance warnings such as avoiding collisions, lane departure warnings, stop and go assist, etc.

It also has support for Apple CarPlay as well as Apple Watch. If there are any incorrect map issues you can fix those yourself using OpenStreetMap.

See https://www.magicearth.com/

#technology #magicearth #navigation #android #iOS

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

True not open source, but they've been on the go a good number of years. They're very public about their privacy stance so it would pretty well much wreck their reputation if that was an issue. Not seen any issues mentioned though about that, so I would not want to just speculate without some foundation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Well, the issue is when I want my rights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Your GDPR rights should be well guarded I gather. Citizens outside of the EU though basically don't have many rights from what I gather if I watch what Facebook gets up to. Which is why many are now choosing to subscribe to services hosted in Switzerland or the EU countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

My four rights are not fit with them:

Right to study the program
Right to modify the program
Right to distribute the program
Right to distribute modified versions of the program

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Those are open source rights and Magic Earth made no claim on being open source, which is why I never posted it in the open source community. It's a free tool to use that is at least privacy respecting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

And I was replying in first place to your claim that is not open source jajajajajaja.

You tell that and I was playing the role of the user demanding its rights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It is the choice of any publisher (their freedom?) to choose a propriatary or open source license to distribute under, and it's up to us to choose what we want to use. We cannot override someone else's freedoms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Is the choise, as far as don't restrict to third parties, so in this case if that person wants that, must do "private software" which is software not shared and maintained for itself.

For us, Magic Earth would not exist.