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/
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Seems to be closed source? So all you can do is take them for their word, and if they like they can change the privacy policy any time.
Sounds like one of those typical VC funded scams: offer a externally subsidized (VC funds) service for a time to collect many users and lock them in the platform. After a while sell the company off and the new owner changes it to a surveillance capitalism business model.
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.
Well, the issue is when I want my rights.
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.
My four rights are not fit with them:
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.
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.
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.
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.