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[โ€“] paper_moon@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Are there any mapping apps thats not google maps that has traffic data? I haven't looked in a while, but last time I did it was a 'no' and I'm just shocked this hasn't really been solved. Either by highjacking google maps data, or using local news data to fill in areas of maps with heavy traffic etc. There's gotta be some way to solve this.

Like I get it, projects can't just wholesale use google maps data, they'll get shut down, but there's no side loaded plugin you can load to use Google's traffic data and the project just kind of winks in their github page and says 'we don't encourage anyone to use this plugin...'?

[โ€“] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Magic Earth. Sometimes it crashes and gives confusing voice instructions. But it has traffic data and is therefore my daily driver.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Magic_Earth

Not ~~owned by Haliburton~~

https://ir.halliburton.com/news-releases/news-release-details/halliburton-announces-definitive-agreement-acquire-magic-earth

I am now wondering if these are two different things both named magic earth?

Yeah. My bad. Not owned by Halliburton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Earth_Inc.