![]() ![]() ![]() What do I want from a map (for planning rides, and viewing activities afterwards): Google Maps can be replaced by OSM as I will show below, but there is just no alternative to Street View… (And then I did not even mention how much worse the satellite data provided by MapBox than Google Maps.) This is not what I expected from Strava, especially not as a paying customer… Anyway, let’s move on. Street View was used by many of us to plan our rides (check road surface, traffic levels, segments, etc.), and to check out rides/runs of our friends on Strava, to see where they went. Also, the biggest problem is not the switch to OSM, because it is a very welcome option especially for off-road cyclists and trail runners (when the OSM data is presented in a proper way – and this is the main topic of this post), but dropping Google Maps, and especially the removal of Street View. ![]() The change should have been carried out after a proper test phase, asking feedback from (at least the premium, paying) users, building proper map styles, and communicating it to the community in a detailed, timely manner. The switch was most likely done to save money, and since it was executed completely unprofessionally, basically replacing the Google Map layer with extremely badly styled OSM data using MapBox, many people (including me) got pretty mad about it. A few days ago Strava (probably the most famous activity tracking app/site) unexpectedly switched from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap (OSM). ![]()
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