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@TheFrirish @mamus what does white elephant mean
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Something very expensive to maintain, but not very useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant
@InsertUser @mamus @openstreetmap ah yeah makes sense
Actually I translated badly from French. I mean it's a very cluttered app that tries to do too many things. On long routes the battery consumption is really high, in order of 1% per minute if you put in a route that's more than 1000km long.