It is a proprietaty app so most advice here is just guessing
Use OSMand or OrganicMaps if you want something that doesnt track you and work offline
Magic Earth Privacy
missing-root Yes id want to use them, but i need public transport to work well. OSMand gives bad routes with that and i dont think Organic Maps support it.
Rizzler Organic Maps supports it, but just uses the OSM data, so no live data, delays etc.
Not that useful.
OSMAnd supports it? It would need a routing plugin like Öffi, technically very possible but I cant do it.
In Germany I use Öffi for public transport.
I have been looking for a Mapping service that has info on public transportation as well. In the end I found Magic Earth the only app which is having good results when it comes to transportation (except the ones you named as well (Google Maps etc.))
What I like as well is the detailed street view when it comes to crossroads for example.
if it is evil, then it is the least evil possible among all those that offer these functions.
one must die one death
AlphaElwedritsch I was just wondering if my interpretation of the policy is correct. Its not clear to me what they mean exactly under these terms.
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If its just general data about the number of searches etc. then it would be okay for me.
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Rizzler I'll contact Magic Earth support and get back with what they say.
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Magic Earth's privacy policy is detailed in a pdf file (below). I drive; routing information is "anonymously retained for 365 days". It's not great, but I can live with it.
Traffic functionality, though, is apparently retained in perpetuity ("anonymously retained").
You'll have to see what the pdf says about public transportation.
Because I saw consistently among map apps that privacy is worse concerning the use of traffic functionality, I created two profiles in GrapheneOS: one for the privacy respecting map apps (with traffic functionality toggled off) and one for the map apps I use for traffic functionality. In addition, I'm using RethinkDNS (1) to block analytics and also servers for data brokers (2) to use a vpn via a wireguard config file
Re: the privacy respecting apps, I've been testing several for the past several weeks that I'm very pleased with; none of them need GSF and Google Play Services. Maybe you could evaluate those for public transportation.
- Mapy.cz (https://en.mapy.cz/mobilepromo)
- Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app/)
- Guru Maps (https://gurumaps.app/)
- Here WeGo
https://www.magicearth.com/privacy/
https://www.magicearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MagicEarth-User-Data-Privacy_20190902.pdf
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Eury How is Here WeGo, and Guru Maps more private? Genuine question. I just checked their privacy policies and they don't look good.
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Rizzler in that terms it should be OK for you to use it without doubt
AlphaElwedritsch Seeing the PDF @Eury sent, doesn't give me a lot of hope.
Rizzler No problem
Then use OSM or OsmAnd
AlphaElwedritsch Yeah i dont have better options. Public transport is hard to do right i guess.
If you don't have better options, well, you have to use magic earth and accept it ;)
Gmaps WV https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/maps is another option; private if you want routing and don't need realtime navigation.
It uses GOS hardened webview to access the GMaps web page, block cookies, and to find very obscure loctations/addresses. It'll also open up Google street view to confirm destinations. It can then open up Magic earth or other on-device navigation which will provide turn by turn.