Awful change, basically killed GMaps WV overnight.
Fuck google.
So they really just removed the only features that made their propietary service better than the foss ones? I can check public transit with the official app, and do everything else thats navigation related with OSM. Insane move
They didn’t remove it, just require that the user be signed into a Google account to see reviews & images.
So its effectively removed unless you are in Google’s spyware ecosystem.
CoMaps (or any other FOSS navigation app, for that matter) is not a replacement in this context.
It depends
Comaps works pretty well for me. I still use Google maps from time to time but compass works fine the majority of the time.
Read the post title again. Navigation is not the issue at hand.
great! hopefully there is room for others to start to grow
That’s be nice, but let’s be realistic, everyone is signed in, and no one will even notice. This is probably to fight scraping.
ActivityPub review system? I don’t want to figure out how to make that right now. Somebody else?
WV still working for me?
Yet another locked down platform trying to fight the infinite network of bots that is AI scrapers.
You also can’t view users’ 3D photos either :c
