This brings up a good point, can a president all by himself decide what we are calling things? Why not take kickbacks and now google has to change the name of landmarks.
Also, I’ve been using google maps as long as I’ve had an iPhone. I guess I am finally switching over to Apple Maps.
That’s a really good question about a lot of things this administration is doing. As always, it’s some variation of no, but does that matter if no one enforces it?
I don’t if there is specific law, but I read an article a few weeks back detailing the dual process. Name changes should start locally and work their way up to Congress, then to be signed by the president. Obviously the Gulf of Mexico doesn’t have locals, but what happened to Congress? For Denali, it not only overrides the locals but ignores all the due process that went into changing the name.
However, I can see some small amount of blame to Biden for setting a good/bad example. Apparently the change from McKinley to Denali was a local request, locally voted, passed by Alaska congress, an entire process of making sure locals are heard. Then it sat in our dysfunctional Congress for years without any action. Joe Biden signed and went ahead despite it not coming from Congress. He did the right thing for the local people who had been requesting the name change for so long, and Congress clearly abdicated their duty. However, technically he set a bad example proceeding with something that should have come through Congress
there’s something called “open maps” (atleast I think that’s the name) that people on Lemmy seem to like.
Haven’t used it myself yet but people seem to like it
Edit: looks like it’s actually “OpenStreetMaps” and there’s not one app for it :/
If anyone else has experience I’m open to recommendations
I love OSMAnd for openstreetmap. Great for offline maps, and able to download whole countries in advance. There’s lighter weight apps now, I think; OSMAnd has lots of features, many which I don’t need, but I still love it after picking it up when it was maybe the only one.
Doesn’t do traffic (I don’t think?) and it’s routing used to be lacklustre. Search function still seems rubbish to me, but maybe I’m using it wrong. (If I’m searching for a place rather than looking on the map I’ll often use Google maps to get a lat/lon or plus code, then put that into OSM!)
Somebody please recommend an app. Must-have features are traffic, police, and speed camera alerts. The app also needs to show the speed limit, and basically have every convenience feature that Google Maps has that I’m forgetting about.
I’ve been using Magic Earth, I am not sure that it has traffic and police. Does for sure have speed limit warnings you can set or turn off and camera alert options.
I haven’t had it very long, there may be options I missed on setup. Worked great my last few trips. You can pre-download maps before you travel which was a must for me.
This brings up a good point, can a president all by himself decide what we are calling things? Why not take kickbacks and now google has to change the name of landmarks.
Also, I’ve been using google maps as long as I’ve had an iPhone. I guess I am finally switching over to Apple Maps.
That’s a really good question about a lot of things this administration is doing. As always, it’s some variation of no, but does that matter if no one enforces it?
I don’t if there is specific law, but I read an article a few weeks back detailing the dual process. Name changes should start locally and work their way up to Congress, then to be signed by the president. Obviously the Gulf of Mexico doesn’t have locals, but what happened to Congress? For Denali, it not only overrides the locals but ignores all the due process that went into changing the name.
However, I can see some small amount of blame to Biden for setting a good/bad example. Apparently the change from McKinley to Denali was a local request, locally voted, passed by Alaska congress, an entire process of making sure locals are heard. Then it sat in our dysfunctional Congress for years without any action. Joe Biden signed and went ahead despite it not coming from Congress. He did the right thing for the local people who had been requesting the name change for so long, and Congress clearly abdicated their duty. However, technically he set a bad example proceeding with something that should have come through Congress
there’s something called “open maps” (atleast I think that’s the name) that people on Lemmy seem to like.
Haven’t used it myself yet but people seem to like it
Edit: looks like it’s actually “OpenStreetMaps” and there’s not one app for it :/
If anyone else has experience I’m open to recommendations
I love OSMAnd for openstreetmap. Great for offline maps, and able to download whole countries in advance. There’s lighter weight apps now, I think; OSMAnd has lots of features, many which I don’t need, but I still love it after picking it up when it was maybe the only one.
Doesn’t do traffic (I don’t think?) and it’s routing used to be lacklustre. Search function still seems rubbish to me, but maybe I’m using it wrong. (If I’m searching for a place rather than looking on the map I’ll often use Google maps to get a lat/lon or plus code, then put that into OSM!)
Apple’s maps data frequently is OpenStreetMaps data in quite a few regions.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple
Organic Maps on iOS seems good so far
Somebody please recommend an app. Must-have features are traffic, police, and speed camera alerts. The app also needs to show the speed limit, and basically have every convenience feature that Google Maps has that I’m forgetting about.
I’ve been using Magic Earth, I am not sure that it has traffic and police. Does for sure have speed limit warnings you can set or turn off and camera alert options.
I haven’t had it very long, there may be options I missed on setup. Worked great my last few trips. You can pre-download maps before you travel which was a must for me.
Suggestions for OSM apps?