[ghm2180]

This should be the way. Have a tiny burner phone for maps and any apps that you absolutely can't use without google(it should be a tiny set of < 10 apps hopefully) until you can fully de-google

My current de-google project is categorizing all my pictures on my local NAS to create the memories feature (where it shows historic pics on multiple theme axes). You can get really far with just a few hours of work a month to de-google and some off the shelf image embeddings.

The hero project in this category — what one cannot do trivially as an indie dev — is creating a great fresh PoI dataset. This is tough to do on a planetary scale because its a societal cooperation problem.

[class3shock]

The problem with this is gmaps. There is no alternative to it and by the nature of it knowing your location it removes anonymity. I would buy, or even pay a monthly fee, for something that is 75% as good as gmaps but respects your privacy but there is nothing out there I have found.