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unglueclass23@programming.devOPto
BuyFromEU@feddit.org•In case you need some motivation to de-googleEnglish
2·3 months agoYeah search is definitely lacking I noticed as well. You need to give a specific address then it finds it. I would guess at least partly it’s because they don’t track you. Also some apps built on OSM are better than others for this.
I’m also annoyed that countries’ borders are not obvious in OSM as the name of the country is not emphasized well enough and the outlines sort of blend together, there’s also too many cities displayed. I have found this also to be the case in Cartes and Facilmap
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unglueclass23@programming.devOPto
BuyFromEU@feddit.org•In case you need some motivation to de-googleEnglish
31·3 months agohttps://www.404media.co/google-maps-lake-america-lake-ontario-name-change/ more about this for those that live under a rock
It was unclear in the days immediately following the order whether Google would respect the name change. MapQuest, the 1996 navigation service that still exists but most people stopped using in the early 2000s as Google Maps took over, went viral last week after posting a screenshot of Lake Ontario on X, saying “We’re not changing it.” MapQuest also launched a “Rename Lake Ontario” web toy.
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Google follows the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which formally changed the name for ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ in the United States, according to Google’s announcement about the change, posted Saturday: “Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Lake America,’ those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario,’ and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.”
I don’t think there is one. When I researched like a year back basically every brand was made in China. Maybe you can find some obscure one? I couldn’t, so I went with Bosch and am quite happy with it.



I buy from https://eu.dilling.com/, Danish company, makes clothes I think in Lithuania (not sure if all of them).