AccuWeather, National Weather Service add ‘Lake of America’ to its maps, forecasts
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AccuWeather and the National Weather Service have begun using “Lake America” in forecasts and maps after an executive order directed the name change.
  • sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
    19·
    2 months ago

    Anecdotal but my phone battery life has been greatly improved since I disabled Google Maps. I was hitting the 20% warning routinely before end of day previously, and now I typically have 30-40% when I plug it in at night.

    On a related note, MapQuest offers Android Auto integration, and the turn-by-turn experience has been adequate in my admittedly limited testing.

    YMMV.

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      my phone battery life has been greatly improved

      It’s a truism amongst gapps-free ROM and also all sorts of adblock users.

      And yea, OSM has vastly improved in the past decade to the point that it’s just as - if not more - reliable as Google’s maps.

      Disclaimer: people pointing out the convenience of Google products will be ridiculed. Even traffic jam prediction.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
    5·
    2 months ago

    Accuweather is a conservative controlled scam-for-profit company and the NWS is under conservative control now as well. Conservatives absolutely despise science, so we should trust absolutely nothing produced by these entities anymore.