Ein kurioses Phänomen in #AppleMaps: Die App zeigt willkürlich Gepäckausgabe-Symbole von Flughäfen an - selbst bei weit herausgezoomter Kartenansicht. Der Bug tritt auf allen Apple-Geräten auf und verwirrt. https://winfuture.de/news,149813.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

With the enshittification of Apple Maps, I think there is another opportunity in the Fediverse to build something great.

Is anyone working on something like this based on OSM and the Fediverse? Recently, Foursquare released their location data, which could be a great kick-off.

I would love to contribute.
#applemaps #osm #googlemaps #fediverse #foursquare

https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-source-places-a-new-foundational-dataset-for-the-geospatial-community/

The screenshot above shows Mozilla Firefox 132 (running on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) with the web version of Apple Maps successfully loaded.

All features work as they should, including search, directions, hybrid images, location detection, guides, places of interest, plus core interactive features like scrolling/zooming, and so on.

In other browsers, this is not the case.

Thing is, Linux users being able to access a competent alternative (not the only alternative, of course) to Google Maps is a good thing, even if most people would prefer to use another service, like OpenStreetMap.

See https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/apple-maps-beta-linux-support-ish
#Blog, #applemaps, #firefox, #technology