I guarantee Google already has a fog of war map of every place you’ve ever been
Mobile OSM is a bit like that when it hasn’t downloaded the tiles for the regions you don’t usually go to.
Please add fast travel for places you’ve been in the next patch
Like a train station?
Like a train station?
Honestly, I’d be fine with a fast travel sign post as long as worked as intended.
Honestly, I’d rather have them remove all timed quests. Those are the ones that suck the enjoyment out of my travel experiences.
I’d love this, but like Hero’s Path so it knows everywhere you’ve ever been, like the time I somehow made it back to Merton from wherever the night bus dropped me off drunk that time.
Did you really make it back fully, though? What did you leave behind that night?
And then not google.
someone should make PR in CoMaps or OwnTracks for this feature
You should have to fill it in by climbing a big tower
Alain Robert way ahead of us all on that one!
I want that
Fog of World has existed for a long time
Does that work without gsf/google maps?
How do you add this to the Google Maps Android app?
Kind of terrifying since I use maps pretty much exclusively for places I haven’t been to yet, so I’m not totally unfamiliar when I go there
Gotta get a quest to drop a POI out there
You could make it a “mode” of sorts. Like a map overlay that will temporarily cover everything you havent been to.
I would absolutely love that. Fuck fast travel, let me explore!
same,
would be nice to see where you have exploded,
wonder if google has an API to get that info from your location history and make a web app that shows you how much you’ve explored
would be nice to see where you have exploded,
I don’t think it would be nice to see where people exploded, to be honest.
Dawarich is self-hosted, foss, and lets you track your location history and import from Google or a GPX file, and also you can use the OwnTracks app and connect to it to automatically sync.
like i need to tell google more about me
Doesn’t need to be made by Google. It could be self hosted. Be the change you want to see in the world 😉
it IS self-hosted. Look up Dawarich.
you can request your data from Google (not sure if there’s an api), and use that data to make you own map
Location data is one of the things that you can export through Google takeout , I believe — though I’m not sure what format that would come in.
I don’t imagine it would be too hard for a dedicated nerd who is procrastinating other work to write a thing to parse that data and view it in a map based on something more open, like Openstreetmaps.
i know you can get the data through Google takout. but if there’s an api, it would be more user friendly and you could make an app
Had that (for OpenStreetMap) on my long list of project ideas, including quests you could take to some random monuments. Maybe one day.
Had that (for OpenStreetMap) on my long list of project ideas
haha, same. Ok, I kick it from my list and you do it.
I expect contributions!
If you’d write it with the 1 programming language I’m good at, I promise to do at least 1 pull request. 😉
Deal. Need to first finish one large project before committing to something new again.
Combine that with Street Complete and you have a game
There is an app of fdroid and google play called street complete. Its basically quests to fill in local missing data on openstreet map
You have reminded me that StreetComplete exists. I used to use it a while back, but for the last few years, I lived in an area that was already pretty thoroughly mapped. However, I would wager that where I live now is more sparsely documented; I’ve only recently moved here, and StreetComplete could be a nice way to become more settled.
Street complete is great for learning a new area, and there are always things to update. A business changed or whatever
This would actually encourage me to explore new areas of my city.
I’ve been doing exactly that with an app called Fog of World.
5 years of progress so far.
$30 👀 I’d need a lot of convincing…
What?
25.- chf?
It’s actually cheaper over here?
C$40 😵💫
€25
25.- chf as well. Which surprises me a lot.
Poor Bumgarians just joining the zone :(
Oh I got it on sale I think. But it’s worth it to me tbh, for sentimental value.
In the last 5 years, I’ve left my state one time that I remember
Holy shit. Even in my own country I’d be miserable. If I were American I’d probably have punched my ticket after 5 years in one state.
Depends on the state tbh. Texas is like the size of France. There’s a lot of places to go even within that state and varied geography and climate.
This may be a newb question… but, how you do dat?
As in, how do you pull all of your gps data out of google maps?
This app uses it’s own tracking. But supposedly there’s way to export your Google Location history into a standard format like KML or GPX which Fog of World can import.
You’ve been through my little town :)
Do you drive for work?
I used to be a trucker yeah. The lines in Canada and some of the northeast/Florida personal trips though
What about Streetcomplete? You explore and help others at the same time…
Pikmin Bloom does exactly this
this is just the Waze map editor
your editable region is just around streets you’ve been on
A map that only knows my home PC, work PC, and the 2 routes in-between?
What else would you need it for?
I already know the 2 routes.
