{"id":366,"date":"2025-08-09T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:46:32","slug":"my-decision-to-leave-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/my-decision-to-leave-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Free from the Google Maps Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Breaking Free from the Map Monopoly: My Journey to Open-Source Navigation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was using Google Maps for a long time, but I didn&#8217;t like the idea of sharing my location and other personal data with a big company. I wanted to change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started using Yandex Maps, which is a good alternative. It works well with public transport in Istanbul, where I live. But I was looking for something more. I wanted a map app that is open source, so I can trust it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still searching for the perfect app. I want to find something that is not controlled by a big company. I want to be sure that my data is safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking Free from the Map Monopoly: My Journey to Open-Source Navigation I was using Google Maps for a long time, but I didn&#8217;t like the idea of sharing my location and other personal data with a big company. I wanted to change that. I started using Yandex Maps, which is a good alternative. It works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}