Hi, I am often in unfamiliar locations because of what I do for work and I’m having trouble finding ways to search for businesses that are close by. I’m kind of embarrassed to say that I’ve let myself become pretty dependent, over many years of phone use now, to just use google maps to search for pretty much everything… I’m no longer happy with this method, and I’d like to eliminate my dependency on them.
What are some of your favorite ways to research new locations you’re unfamiliar with? I’m willing to go as far as seeking out phone books if I have to. (I remember the days before the internet, let me tell you…)
Also, I have both organic street maps as well as osmand installed and while I really like using organic street maps it (as well as osmand) is quite lacking in this certain respect.
Organic maps was a really happy find for me. I like it WAY better than osmand (even though I do like that one on principal). The look/functionality of it are damn near top notch. A few refinements here and there and it will be something truly special in my opinion.
‘wraps google maps in a webview. Can be very privacy firendly depending on the browser your system uses as it’s webview’
so it like will contain it or something then? I typically try to use firefox for everything. I’ve run into the webview version of google maps a few times, but I wouldn’t think it was any more secure to use that version.
While true, that’s sumpy becaise the Tor network is used as much as it is. If usage of Lokinet were to pick up, it would just slow down. Knowing the developers of Oxen, they’d then probably cut down on it’s anonymity to increase speed again.