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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years 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

[–] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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!

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

Here's my map.

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 15 points 2 years 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)

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any reason why? I'm just curious.

Also... starts playing Johnny Cash

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Midwest is okay but a bit boring

Flat dirt isn't very interesting? Clutches pearls

[–] poppy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation

[–] Slimy_hog@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

$30 on android?!

[–] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] codeman869@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years 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.