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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've switched to HERE for navigation too. I've used Citymapper for public transport both at home and on holiday and think it's great.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nice suggestion, I'll keep it in mind when I find HERE or Organic Maps lacking. Tried to look into their business model, which seems to be advertising and selling tickets but they are very open about it which I like. Unlike here, which give me the 'everything is free and we're not gonna tell you how we can afford to do that'-vibe.

I see it's from the UK so if you want @[email protected], you could add it to the overview.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I will look into Citymapper. Thanks.

HERE is owned by a handful of billion euro companies, like VW, BMW and Mercedes. My guess is they don't need to make money on their consumer apps, but use them to improve their data for their in-car products.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, what I think too. Rather support FOSS but in this case an eu corpo just does a much better job. Kuddos to you for taking in all these suggestions here, keep up the good work!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Added. Thanks.