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It's not exactly the same, but I can vouch for StreetComplete being an incredibly good/similar game. You walk around the real world, and the app points out missing data in OpenStreetMap that you can fill in easily. You get the dopamine of a number going up, help dethrone proprietary map dominamce, and get some good excercise in in the process.
Up is exactly the direction I like numbers to go!
You want the murder rate number to go up?!??
Uhhh this is fun!
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
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!
There's an app for that, Fog of World.
Here's my map.
Damn, that looks impressive! I'm guessing truck driver? 😄
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)
Any reason why? I'm just curious.
Also... starts playing Johnny Cash
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.
Midwest is okay but a bit boring
Flat dirt isn't very interesting? Clutches pearls
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.
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.
There is an app. Fog of the world is the name. Havent tried it personally.
That seems really interesting, but not $30 app interesting.
It works great! When I was on paternity leave and went out for walks with the baby in the stroller every day, it was a bit boring to just walk the same route each time. I downloaded the Fog of world app and set my self the goal of walking every meter of every street in my part of town before the end of my leave. That made it much more fun, buuuuut I haven't used it after that...
You know, I would really like to try this.
You can see this in Waze if you open the map editor. you can only edit a certain radius around where you've been, so your editable area is like a fog of war.
I'll wait until they add fast travel.
That's basically what public transport is.
You folks actually leave the house? Impressive!
This is reposted all the time and the answer has kept being: Pikmin Bloom. It's F2P, you reveal the areas you physically visit and the rest of the map is grey. It'll track your steps and location in the background, so all you have to do is have your phone on you.
I would visit every corner of the world trying to find all the loot and collectables
Because of the GDPR, Google offers a download of all collected data about you. When you have your location history enabled, this should be part of it. If that's in a useful data format to parse, one could program this with the actual data of one's movement
Indeed. One can see the reverse of that idea on their Google Timeline.
That's cool but a pretty difficult way to regularly update the fog...
Stop giving Google ideas on how to track us even more.
They already have this data for most people. This could already be a thing
Oh no, not a visual representation of data they already have as a matter of course by the very nature of a map app or GPS!
My map would look really sad
Y'all should try Ingress. 😅 Doesn't really have fog of war, but you do get to visit art in search of portals for portal-keys. 😜
It's the company that made Pokemon Go's more-serious first app that came out years before P-Go did, as one of the first of its kind, though it only got interest from the more niche communities. I played it until G+ got slaughtered, as it was the main base of communications and Ingress communities.
Did this dude fast travel? Like why are there separated clear areas on the bottom left and bottom right?
Gotta hold the map in your off-hand while traveling or it won't autocomplete
Everytime somebody of your family or friends is inside the known area there should be an alert: reinforcement has arrived.
Or an alert about new options if you unfog a new building like a restaurant.
I had an idea where I would walk in a radius of few kilometers and walk on every street, etc. I wonder how long would it take, lol.
Someone make an app for that :P
Ok this, but on geoguessr would be fire
I just want to be able to establish lodestones so I can tele to places
gta v map menu but irl
That would be amazing