Experiment #3 - Nearby Items

pleaseopensource1p Great question, it really depends on the platform since they all interact with their mapping services slightly differently. On iOS and macOS, we are using the built-in mapping framework provided by Apple. The framework itself may make remote calls to Apple's mapping backend (we only call the framework, we don't control its behaviour, remote or otherwise). It's a similar story on Android where the Google Map service is used. While we haven't made a decision about Windows or Linux, since those platforms don't have built-in mapping frameworks, it would require us to make calls to an external mapping service ourselves.