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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] New documentation on the Surf browser
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:36:34 +0100
Florian Zieboll <f.zieboll@???> wrote:

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> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 01:30:02 -0500
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
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> > I still use Chromium for Google maps
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> No discussion intended, but you might want to have another look at
> free and libre OpenStreetMap: https://osm.org/
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> Runs like a charm in /every/ not-textonly browser and is, at least for
> most of my use cases, superior in many, many details.


I think OpenStreetMap is a European Thang. Here in the US, it can't
match addresses to locations. It also has no way of custom-changing a
route, which IIRC is the only thing that Google Maps couldn't do in
Surf. And, as expected, it has neither Street View, Satellite View, nor
store locations.

Nevertheless, I'll be using OpenStreetMap as often as possible, because
Google makes the world a worse place. Thanks for the information.


SteveT

Steve Litt
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