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Exciting News! We're thrilled to announce the release of CoMaps to Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and F-Droid!

CoMaps Highlights

· Offline Search and Route: Plan and navigate your trips without internet

· Saves battery: Efficient design that does not drain your battery

· Privacy-respecting: no identify people, no tracking, no data collection

· Free and No Ads: completely free, your journey is smooth

What makes CoMaps special?

CoMaps is a community-driven open-source navigation app · Open & Transparent: All decisions are made in public, with full transparency.

· Community Empowerment: You have a voice in how the app evolves.

· Free & Not-for-Profit: Our focus is on creating value for the community, not generating profit.

Download CoMaps Today

  • Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.comaps.google
  • Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/comaps/id6747180809
  • F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/

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[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Holy crap, this map is awesome. They have the grills, picnic tables, even all the ski lifts on the ski hill.

Don't care if the graphics look like they came from the 90s. I love the details

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

That's OpenStreetMap data for you - come check out the project if you'd like!

[–] QueenFern@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago

I can't get it to work with Android Auto on GrapheneOS. Any pointers?

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 6 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I use Osmand, how does this compare?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Simpler and less features but far lighter.

[–] cellardoor@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Best there is! I was using OrganicMaps and now CoMaps. Such a good seemingly genuine piece of software.

[–] washipp@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

For me its much simpler to use and more straight forward. That being said, I feel like osmand allows you to be much more precise when selecting a route. But I havnt really used osmand that much

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What is or will be different to organic maps, besides the governing? I have organic maps on my phone and I do not see a reason to switch for now.

[–] Undaunted@feddit.org 38 points 1 day ago

You probably won't gain much right now, but as the development on Organic Maps has stalled, you might encounter bugs not being fixed, no new features etc. If it stays like that, you'd probably want to switch at some point.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn't organic maps change to comaps ?

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Comaps is a fork I think. Organic maps will live on

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Have the primary contributers moved to CoMaps as well?

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 37 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Do we think traffic data will ever be available for a project like this one? Or maybe it already is and I just don't know.

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Traffic data kind of requires driver tracking data to be sent to the cloud, which usually goes against the philosophy of projects like this. Unless they're obtaining it from a third party, I doubt it'll be a feature they implement.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

OsmAnd seems to do this.

They predict traffic patterns based on random UUID. I don't know how it works but it seems to be default on.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

I think it would be fine if it were opt-in, but then you wouldn't get enough data to get accurate traffic estimates

[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 day ago
[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Has there been any progress on the actual map data? Last time I tried Organic Maps the places I wanted to go didn't come up in search, and when I planned a road trip with it it planned the trip hours longer than Google maps.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You could use Streetcomplete to fill in the missing data yourself.

[–] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

This is sick. It makes mobile updates to OSM nice and easy. Thanks for sharing!

[–] randy@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That sounds like an issue with the underlying OpenStreetMap data that is used by Organic Maps (and CoMaps, and OsmAnd, and others). Map quality depends on where you are in the world and who is contributing to the maps there. If data is incomplete around you, you could contribute to it (but easier said than done, I know).

I can't say why the route would be hours longer than Google maps, but I've noticed OsmAnd~ tends to overestimate drive time for me (I think it overestimates delay from traffic lights). Or it could just be that calculating routes on your phone doesn't always give results as good as calculating routes on Google's servers.

God forbid you make a wrong turn with OSMAnd, the recalculating time is atrocious, and it's not unlikely that you're unable to stop, so it recalculates based on where you were, or in such a way to where you can't follow it's new guidance.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nice and simple. But in public transport it says "U-Bahn (metro) not yet available in this region" (Zurich). Guess that's future content.

[–] Stzyxh@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

Yea, Public Transport is not so good in Comaps, but it's planned to make it better https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/299

[–] Philamand@jlai.lu 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you, it seems really nice.

Edit: I'm on a camping trip and I was mad because the app wasn't able to find my next stop. Turns out that I downloaded the wrong map because I suck at local geography.

[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me Tracks appears ruptured, any fix for that?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Pleae report that on on their repo (with a logfile too) instead of here.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Any plans for making it available on Accrescent?

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will AndroidAuto work if installed from F-Droid or will I need to install the version from Google Play like Organic Maps?

[–] relic4322@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It didnt for me. I installed Comaps from fdroid the other day, and it didnt come up on androidauto. I guess I could try installing it from the app store and see.

[–] ssroxnak@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's a setting hidden in Android Auto that let's you pick what apps to show. I think it's within the app's developer settings.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

You're right. They try to hide it from you.

[–] relic4322@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

found it but was super limited. went into developer settings and enabled unknown sources but it didnt change the options. did some searches but cant find any way of really doing anything about it without rooting my phone. so meh.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Someone needs to develop an open source replacement for android auto and really stick it to Alphabet

[–] relic4322@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

you are not kidding, this one is driving me crazy. no pun intended.

[–] relic4322@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

amazeballs, thanks!

[–] furtiveParalysis@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Switch operated with success. Export locations from OM, open kmz file with comaps, done.

[–] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

How do you export locations from om? can't find anything in the settings

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago

I've tried liking co maps, but here wego works so much better, in the US..