I hope they will make the destination search much better, it's almost unusable now, and unintuitive. Regarding traffic data, how much could it be per user per year, something like this https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data ?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Destination search in all the OSM based maps is a challenge. The Latin letter transliteration only applies to large features. So if I want to find an address in a country try that doesn't use Latin script, I literally need a keyboard in that language or do a lot of cut and paste from Google Translate. My address never, ever works on OSM. Gets the wrong street, can't even handle house/building numbers. Works fine on Google.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Magic Earth handles it decently.

https://www.magicearth.com/

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit. Yes, it does. Thanks! Hadn't heard of it until today

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

Not FOSS though. But privacy first

[–] troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world -2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, that just seems normal to me. If you’re looking for an adress in a foreign language, it seems obvious that you’d have to type it in that language. I don’t really understand why people would expect their map to do it for them.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Because it's an option already. "Transliterate to Latin letters."

Edit: I should add that you should look at how many keyboard layouts there are. It's kind of silly that for me to use an OSM based map and go to any county east of Slovenia I need to both have the keyboard AND know the transliteration of the alphabet.

Have you seen the Armenian or Georgian alphabets? What makes the K sound?

Did you know every dialect of a Slavic language using Cyrillic has it's own distinct keyboard varied by mostly the letter for the nya sound and J?

Greek?

All while transliteration works fine in Google.

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