8mo ago

Lokjo.com - Your worldwide local map

www.lokjo.com

New OSM based Map Website.

We use open data from OSM.org , a platform with over a million volunteers world wide, updating the map, roads, locations etc in their area. This includes any shops.

Hopefully it keeps alive and does not die (like similar Qwant Maps)

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If I click on a big chain supermarket (Lidl, Aldi or Spar) I get this message and I can't see opening hours:
Our filter indicates this a corporation or chain, which we don't support.
Why a map app wants to decide which stores I should go to? I want to decide what corporations I hate, please don't tell me how to live my life.
Since Qwant is down I started to use https://osmapp.org as a replacement. Not as polished as Qwant was, but clickable POIs on the default vector layer, with most important info visible.
Edit:
I found this in the FAQ:
Q - After searching locations, some are shown with a red dot.
A - These are for locations that are corporate or chains, and don't show any information about the place. We do this because on our map we support fair policies, and shops whose primary target is to make a living by serving products.
It assumes wrongly that small shops are always better. I live in a big city where nearly all local shops are owned by local oligarchs, AND the prices are higher and quality is worse than in international chains. So the profit will go to a wrong place either way, so my choice is my wallet, but this app wants to force me against that. No, thank you.
- Wow that's ridiculous
- What annoys me even more with both osmapp and lokjo is that they show neither metro stops/lines (unless you zoom right in) nor bike paths (at all), and there's no option to enable it. Also neither of the apps allow you to make routes via public transit. Apart from feeling car-brained, this makes those apps functionally useless for navigating in bigger cities for more than a couple kilometers (and I say that as someone who has a car; I'm not spending my life in traffic, public transit is much faster, easier, and eco-friendly!)
  
  For usable public transport routing the router would need to know the timetable, and that data is not available in osm. There was a thread about this a month ago: https://feddit.org/post/3575702
  Osmapp has a bicycle layer and bicycle routing.
Edit: forget it. The other commentor highlighted what's wrong with this map

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