> To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with "_nomap." For example, if your SSID is "12345," you would change it to "12345_nomap."
We can hope that Microsoft will require _bing_nomap as their suffix, While Apple will be more privacy-minded and require _yesapplemaps to be added if you wish to opt-in.
Opting out of Google while opting into MS and Apple scanning is left as an exercise to the reader.
Followed by: "To help ensure your changed SSID is submitted to Google quickly, open Google Maps on an Android device with Wi-Fi turned on. To establish a location fix near your Wi-Fi access point, tap My location My location."
It reminds me that there was a version of Google Maps on iOS where if you wanted to cache a region of the map locally for offline use, you would (1) zoom out to view the full area to cache and (2) search for "OK Maps" to cache that area.†
Yes. Searching for "OK Maps" to cache it. You know, instead of maybe adding a button like in any normal app made for human beings?
I'm not at all surprised by this _nomap "solution".
LOL. Are they kidding?