Good time to switch to Openstreetmap (OrganicMaps is a good mobile app for it) https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-maps-is-now-less-useful-if-youre-not-signed-in My experience has been that OSM's biggest weakness is less detailed info on stores, restaurants, etc. But if that's something that Google is treating as a premium feature and locking down, and meanwhile OSM will almost certainly improve, then...