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Re: "No Google? No Maps! No Friends 🏝"
Glad to hear somone somewhere is try to spread the geo:xx.xxx,yy.yyy love! I also went down that rabit hole to see how Google is shortening the links and to maybe try and make an app (or more likely a script) that unwraps it automatically. I then found out that for actual places (like restaurants or train stations) Google is asigning them a unique code so even after you follow the link the actual location is in the end with Google and not in the link itself.
Dec 16 · 13 days ago
Honesty is the best principle
Respond to a Google Maps link with hey, I don’t use Google Maps. Can you send me coordinates/address/something else?
🐵 cquenelle · Dec 16 at 20:20:
Apologies for being off-topic, but I read the title here and heard: "no sun, no moon, No proper time of day" from Art of Noise - Opus 4. Which is based on the poem November by Thomas Hood.
No Google? No Maps! No Friends 🏝 — TLDR; We rely too heavily on links to convey and discuss locations and it is not universally interoperable. If it wasn't for Google's obvious monopoly we would have solved this already. 📱 I've been using LineageOS for about a year now with very few complaints. I actually installed LineageOS , then GrapheneOS, then LineagOS and then LineageOS again on the same phone as I figured out how to get an OS that meets my needs (and also figure out what I actually *...
💬 Bazmatazable · 5 comments · 5 likes · Dec 15 · 13 days ago