Arcane Map

A privacy focused Google Maps alternative

57 followers

A privacy focused Google Maps alternative

57 followers

Safety and Privacy platforms

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Travel Planning

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Maps and GPS

Find your way in the World with Arcane Maps. Get navigation, real-time traffic, and extended places info. Organize your favorite places into custom lists and share them with your friends. No log with full privacy.

Launch tags:Productivity•Crypto•Privacy

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@walterion1 Awesome product!! Would be awesome to have the option to embed a map into a website. This would be a great way to embed a loaction without using Google maps!

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6yr ago

Arcane Map

Maker

@anthemaker Hi An, it is a very cool feature to have, added to the ideas. Thanks!

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6yr ago

@anthemaker @walterion1 Especially to WordPress websites.

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6yr ago

Apalon Apps

Looks good but isn't is that instead of Google tracking the user there is now Mapbox tracking the user who uses your product?

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6yr ago

Arcane Map

Maker

@egorka Thank Egor for your interest. No, as we cared a lot about the requests, and we will not share users locations and data to anyone, as we don't have them either.

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6yr ago

@walterion1 are you serious? You are using Mapbox basemap and have a button to locate the user. Each time user hits that button their location should go to Mapbox to show the map. If you do not have it it does not mean Mapbox does not have it.

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6yr ago

Arcane Map

Maker

@egor_kunovsky_ Hey Egor and thank you for your passionate interest. Your answer is no, and we took care that no personal info link to the location.

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6yr ago

Apalon Apps

@walterion1 so, you do get user e-mail from blockstack but do not pass it over to Mapbox, but that does not mean Mapbox does not track that user based on the information they receive from user's browser and device. You might be not really helping them to track the given user but you can not control or prevent it as long as basemap from Mapbox on the likes is used. A better solution might be to take basemap tiles from 3d party and host them elsewhere, you might want to explore that if you continue to claim any privacy. I also see that you are using Google Tag manager on the pages, so it is Mapbox and Google tracking your users, not just Mapbox instead of Google.

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6yr ago

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Maker

@egorka No one will receive the location or personal info of Maps users. Even your saved lists, locations, and other info, will be first encrypted and then synced. BTW I'm happy that you are this much interested in commenting with two accounts at the same time, thanks!

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6yr ago

Great product @walterion1 ! Just wandering, if I can ask you, could you explain where you use the blockchain please?

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6yr ago

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@fstrazzante Thank you very much, Francesco. Blockchain is used to store the key of your identity so no central server can control it, therefor cant control your data. Don't forget to support us, please ;)

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6yr ago

@fstrazzante @walterion1 what blochchain do you use? It will be a lot of data.

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6yr ago

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@michal_sastinsky Thank you for your interest Michal. Yes it is, and we are using Blockstack.

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6yr ago

First of all great effort challenging multi billion dollar companies. I have few feedback points I'd like to share. 1. The map didn't get my location and didn't ask me for location service permission 2. I tried to search for the location i am at the moment but couldn't find it in suggested results. I had to point out the pin from nearest location. Btw I'm in well known location at the moment. 3. It showed longest drive route between 2 locations. there was a straight road but it couldn't get it. 4. It will helpful to know the distance between 2 destination. Didn't find that information. I hope this will help.

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6yr ago

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@ossman Thank you so much for the detailed comment and for encouraging us to do better. Please contact us from the website so we can look through these issues, but for now, I checked all of them, and I should say there isn't a problem for getting location, and we show the best path regarding distance and traffic. I like to have the distance too, added to the todo, thanks. For now please don't forget to support us :)

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6yr ago

These are great looking maps. If you end up creating an API, LMK. We'd love to have an alternative to Google maps for our social proof notifications.

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6yr ago

Arcane Map

Maker

@jarrod_morris Lovely to hear that, thanks, Jarrod. Yes, we have it on our plan, but first, we want to focus on improving the experience. Please contact us on the website if you like to have a conversation about this.

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6yr ago

@jarrod_morris those are Mapbox maps, the logo is hidden on mobile but in plain sight on desktop

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6yr ago

Zefyr

Hey @walterion1, Very cool. What are you using for the "blockchain-based cloud storage"?

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6yr ago

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@tipeveryday Thanks Mike for your interest and happy you liked it. We are using Blockstack!

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6yr ago

Hey @walterion1 Why do you use .NET for the backend? Is that asp.net core? Really surprised about the choice. I thought .NET was mainly for corporate LOB apps.

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6yr ago

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@vladimir_knobel Hi Vladimir and thanks for the interest. It was a developing choice as we go with any development tools per case. This time it was a matter of maintainability and codebase.

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6yr ago

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