On: Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

[acomjean]

To be fair, the user is getting a pretty amazing map/gps program.

It it worth it? Are they completely upfront about the data they’re harvesting?

You can opt out. Stand alone gps is still available. Open Street maps is an amazing open source program too.

My car has a 2010 gps. It works. It’s not great but it’s gets you close. In some ways I miss my old Tom Tom. It had the mr. T voice yelling at me where to go.

[christkv → acomjean]

I just bought the Tom Tom app and paid for the maps I need. One of their big deals is privacy protection as no data is collected

[acomjean → christkv]

Forgot about the stand alone gps apps. And most phones have plenty of storage for those.

I would love an app that would feed the data back into open street map.