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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That'd be awful for me, my primary use of google maps is streetview to figure out what places look like before I go there

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

You wouldn't be stuck with the fog, you would be able to toggle it on and off. The purpose is to make it obvious which areas you've already seen, so that you can know which areas of the world you still have yet to explore!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's an app for that, Fog of World.

Here's my map.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, that looks impressive! I'm guessing truck driver? 😄

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Correct. Most of it took a year and a half before I got a job that keeps me home every night. Hit all 48 contiguous states except Vermont (I tried to avoid the northeast whenever possible)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Any reason why? I'm just curious.

Also... starts playing Johnny Cash

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

More traffic, and way less truck parking. If you're not shut down by 4pm forget about it.

Out west I got longer loads, better views, and always somewhere to park outside of the cities. Midwest is okay but a bit boring, southeast isn't much better than northeast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Midwest is okay but a bit boring

Flat dirt isn't very interesting? Clutches pearls

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hey, we got soybeans and corn for part of the year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation

[–] Slimy_hog 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They are selling your data anyway. The $30 covers their costs to market your data to advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nah on this app you actually back up the data yourself by hooking into one of your personal cloud storage accounts

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Its a nice idea , but I will hate the way these tech giants choose to implement it. 99% of implementation would need location to be tracked 24x7 and stored in their server . If someone would have a local or private way to do this , I'm exited.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would normally agree with you, but I ran across the privacy policy while looking at the app. Plus it looks like you get to choose which cloud service to sync with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Wow they actually do it locally and aren't in the data selling game. I might end up paying for it just to support these guys.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I kind of do that but in reverse with Google Maps Timeline and Strava heat maps. I can see where I've been and where I haven't been so far.

I guess if someone has their location history something like this wouldn't be too hard to accomplish.