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Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app (www.engadget.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Time to dust off my old folded paper maps.

I can sell some of the duplicates I have. I'm gonna be RICH!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You can buy up to date ones at the gas station still

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What a piece of crap, this thing didn't warn me about the bridge being closed and jammed up because of a car fire. Stupid paper...

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

how ever did people live and get around before the mobile spy tracking hardware was in everyone's pockets.

shocker, your time isn't really as valuable as you think it is..

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

I left on a trip to San Francisco and forgot my STREET maps but I did have an aviation map so I used that.

It did NOT have the freeway numbers marked. I got there looking for water towers and radio towers and bodies of water. I managed OK.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah fuck that shit. If I have to, I’ll whip out the ole Garmin and upload the latest maps to that bitch and go.

[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

Dude someone mentioned this the other day and I pretty mu h went all in on Garmin GPS since then.

I want to use comaps and organic maps and magic earth and all that but they just don't work well for me but the Garmin is on point.

Plus they say they don't sell your data. But even if that's a lie I bought it used off Craigslist so its "Johns" data now.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Back to the basics: Start carrying a yellow pages book with you so that you can find addresses of various businesses. If you need restaurant descriptions, you need one of those tourist guide books too.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

In my town restaurants come and go so fast the yellow pages are basically always obsolete.