Lokjo is a european substitute for googlemaps.

@dokterjob

Yes it's european indeed, but it's also owned by international (and american) investors. Something we don't support.

About the public transport, that's a difficult one, since it consists of thousands of local transport companies, which can only be gathered by companies who have a rediculously huge budget, like google. There's really not much we can do there, for now.

@lokjo @dokterjob Have a look at @transitous

Lokjo is a european substitute for googlemaps.

No cookies, no data, no nothing.

When you search locations by category (clothing shop, coffee bar, museum etc) it shows all locations at once. Except for corporations and chains, they get a grey dot.

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@lokjo No map tiles visible just the route.

Ubuntu 22.04.Vivaldi-snapshot with uBlock Origin and Privacy badger. I tried the same with LibreWolf and still no map tiles.

Privacy Badger suggests two potential tracking cookies. api.mapbox.com and unpkg.com

Disabling PB and uBO does not change the situation wrt the map tiles.

I have a pi-hole between my home network and the internet. Tethering to my phone, thus bypassing the pihole does not help the situation either.

@lokjo I always use private browsing mode with mapping services but I cannot see why that would be a problem.

I also tried connecting to a VPN in the Netherlands but this also did not change anything wrt the non appearance of any map tiles.

@the_wub

Have you tried turning on WebGl?

@lokjo I just enabled hardware acceleration in Vivaldi-snapshot and the map tiles now render. So that is now sorted.

I have in the past had to disable hardware acceleration in vivaldi-stable and snapshot and on chromium on various devices (ARM64 and x64) due to rendering bugs appearing in the UIs.

It would be useful if lokjo could show some sort of message, especially a user friendly one such as "enable hardware acceleration" instead of just presenting a blank page.

@lokjo Or, even better, if technically possible degrade gracefully and render without using WebGL.

Which I assume is not technically possible.

@the_wub

Yes, thanks for the feedback, I'll work on the message for hardware acceleration and WebGL (thought that was automatic done by browser, but apperantly not)

We've had our maps without WebGL for 6 years, but then after Lokjo growing a bit it needed to save bandwith by using vector-tiles, which means using WebGL.

In the future I hope we can get raster-tiles as an extra option, again.