List DuckDuckGo Maps as a frontend for Apple Maps

[Elsie Hupp]

Currently GeoHack lists Apple Maps as “Apple Devices Only”. However, DuckDuckGo licenses Apple Maps for use in a web browser.

You can translate an Apple Maps URL like this one (I’ve used random coordinates):

https://maps.apple.com/?q=31.65092,91.17588

To this one:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=31.65092,91.17588&iaxm=maps

And it should work on any device.

DuckDuckGo Maps should be a preferred (i.e. highlighted) service for GeoHack due to the fact that DuckDuckGo does not track its users, unlike Bing and Google, which are currently preferred services for GeoHack. (There are other, non-preferred services already on GeoHack that do not track users, either.)

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[Elsie Hupp]

I don’t know how you assign priority to issues, so obviously feel free to change the priority if you like. Also, the way you might go about integrating DuckDuckGo Maps vis-a-vis Apple Maps in the GeoHack list is an open question.