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[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there a way to make it pull some data on road closures from google maps? There's a lot of construction on my way to work right now so I rely on google maps to pick the fastest routes, which it does well. OSM just doesn't have the data to do that.

[–] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OSM is just map data. No navigation. You can add any routing engine, the problem is, google does not share that data.

[–] gutter564@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Osmand can't use google data because its proprietary.

What I do is I just give myself extra time to get to my destination.

[–] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With osm I take the shortcuts that are not on google.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I was hoping it could be scraped somehow, but yeah, that's very non-trivial for something like maps.