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Comment by bushbaba | Hacker News Reader

have you tried Apple Maps lately. By me its 95-105% google map’s quality. And the Apple Maps app has way less ads and better UX. Really worth a shot.

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I agree. It’s been my default for years now, and I don’t even have Google maps installed on my phone any more. GMaps feels like it’s pushing me to businesses that advertise with them, as they get highlighted all over their interface.

I can’t stand nowadays when I get an email with an address that links to google maps. All of our OSes have default handlers for addresses as they do for phone numbers, so just let me use my preference already.

In my city in Romania, Apple Maps is missing a lot of locations.

If you want to fight against Google, add them!

I'd much rather use OSM. I don't care about any company's walled garden wheel reinvention.

For driving directions I do use Apple Maps, it’s not bad! But for travel planning or trying to find a place to eat it’s still rough around the edges for me.

Apple Maps have gotten a lot better but they really need to ditch Yelp

I'd agree, but business information is really the killer thing in a maps app a lot of the time. It's a lot of the reason OSM is often near useless even with a good app overlay. Much like most people don't know people's phone numbers any more, I don't actually know the street address for most places I go.

Outside of Google and Yelp, who else has anything close to an effective database of business information, including hours, names, addresses...

+1, switched years ago, never looked back

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