Why not OpenStreetMap or leaflet.js? Google is proprietary and you can't easily share your data.
Do you also do places outside of the US? There's lots of names of German cities which are not on maps.
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For the interest of interoperability though; It would be cool to see this map exported/migrated to a supported interoperable format so that people may, if they choose, view it on the mapping engine of their choice.
It's definitely not a huge priority though; but a nice-to-have that we might hope for by version 1.0 at least.
Yeah, that's a good idea. I don't know if you can easily export things from Google, but at least as a backup for the future it'd be nice to simply throw a file somewhere people can download.
EDIT: seems to be possible: https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3109452
i cannot begin to tell you how uninterested i am in having a discussion about what platform to use on this post, holy shit not everything has to be about your axe to grind with [Company]
This doesn't answer my question and you're being rude, as usual.
It's easier to use this in other projects when the license is free and you have a data format you can export.
You're intentionally making it harder to do anything useful with your data.
If you don't care, that's fine. If your reason is that other platforms are hard to use, that's also a fine reason. If you like to suck Google's cock, that's also valid. But answering with an empty comment is less useful than not answering at all.
Next time please just ignore the question if you're uninterested.
Honestly, I understand the reaction. I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but I have seen a number of times on beehaw and constantly on other lemmy instances situations where someone will post something cool that they did, and the comments are all complaining about the poster not using FOSS software to do that thing. I understand that Lemmy is very popular with FOSS communities but sometimes people just want to make a thing and they don't want to spend all of their time wrestling with the tool they use to make it. I'm sympathetic with the idea of FOSS, but sometimes the gatekeeping is very off-putting.
And, FWIW I believe that Google Maps exports to KMZ/KML which are open standards for geospatial data.
I also understand the reaction, it was still a bit rude and could have been omitted from public record.