2w ago

Gmaps alternative with location ratings? Mapy?

My biggest problem with any gmaps alternative is the missing ratings option. So far I only found mapy. I am very happy with the app but wanted to check if there are any apps that might also be worth a look. Gooing in a restaurant without looking at ratings is a bit to adventurous for me.

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There isn't one really. But you could pull up the ratings on google in a browser instead of having gmaps installed, which is better at least.
Something you learn quick about degoogling is that there's just some services that cannot ever match up with their product. Google Maps is one of those products.
You won't find apps that provide the same service as permitted by the entire Google ecosystem. That would mean that they are as intrusive as Google and you wouldn't be willing to use them. You either choose convenience and you can keep Google or renounce it a bit and use one app per function.
There is also https://mangrove.reviews/, with I believe is what map complete uses. It's open so hopefully mapping apps will start to really use them like Osmand or CoMaps
You can use TripAdvisor for the reviews
- It's not very reliable. We have a restaurant near us that has been closed for years. Google says it's closed, TripAdvisor says it's open.
You won't find anything as robust as the database of reviews that Google maps has built up just due to their size and ubiquity, you'll have to see if you can find reviews on non-maps review sites like tripadvisor, yelp, OpenTable etc.
https://mapcomplete.org/ has reviews in some maps (such as the food map); but there are not a lot of reviews as of now. So, go out and review ;)
- They seem to use another service ( https://mangrove.reviews/ ) to save the reviews. On first read this does sound interesting and I will have a look at it. Thanks :)
Apple Maps is starting to replace yelp ratings with their own. Usually some decent info in well-populated areas.
- Hm I might also check them in the future for reference. I would really like to have the TripAdvisor integration they have, but in a FOSS app. But I guess there would be some licencing issues.

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