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Privacy-respecting alternative to Google/Apple Maps organicmaps.app/

1637 sats \ 13 comments \ @franzap 3 May 2023 bitcoin

437 sats \ 0 replies \ @03365d6a53 3 May 2023

It's one of the best alternatives.

offline support is awesome.

203 sats \ 0 replies \ @franzap OP 3 May 2023

At Organic Maps, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right:

Organic Maps is an indie community-driven open-source project We protect your privacy from Big Tech's prying eyes Stay safe no matter wherever you are

Reject surveillance - embrace your freedom.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @takaponka 4 May 2023

I admit that google maps is the only map I don't manage to get rid off. I tried many alternatives but ux is was too bad for me. May try again

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @franzap OP 4 May 2023

A few times I couldn't find a place, got lost and arrived late just because of using private alternatives 😂 with Google Maps would've been much easier, but f** google

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 4 May 2023

Thanks. Been looking for something like this for a while I'll try it out

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @nullama 4 May 2023

It's been around for a while, and it's great. It only recently changed its name to Organic Maps.

This is the history of it, originally called Maps.me:

Maps.me was founded by Yury Melnichek, Alexander Borsuk, Viktor Govako and Siarhei Rachytski. Under the leadership of Alexander, MapsWithMe onboarded 2.5M users worldwide.

In November 2014, it was acquired by Mail.Ru Group and became part of its My.com brand. In September 2015, the app was open sourced and a free and open-source software version was additionally made available on F-droid.

In November 2020 Mail.ru Group sold Maps.me to the payment processor Daegu Limited, part of Parity.com Group. Daegu Limited changed the application user interface and content. Following this acquisition, in January 2021, a fork — Organic Maps —was created by a developer community.

It is now probably the best open source map app. Here's their github, and fdroid

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 4 May 2023

The best maps for offline hiking are Mapy.cz. Works offline anywhere around the world...

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @felixduhaut 3 May 2023

May I ask, what does it offer over OSMAnd?

Also, will it be available in fdroid?

12 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 3 May 2023

I've personally tried both, and organic maps is heaps better.

The first thing that you will notice is that the rendering is way smoother, and just because of that I ended up ditching OSMAnd.

Then I started using Organic Maps more and more and found it incredibly useful.

I like the fact that you can have multiple lists of favorites, and import/export them as files.

Also I like that it comes with a basic Open Street Map editor on the app itself so you can for example add details of a bar that is not there yet, on the spot.

It also has audible walking directions which is quite useful if you don't want to be looking at your phone all the time.

And many other things, it's great.

The downsides I've found are that public transport routing is a bit weak, and most importantly, the search is not as good as say Google Maps. I just end up searching the thing in the web and copying the address or match the map with the map in the website. This is the one area that can be improved a lot.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @037447d9ca 8 May 2023

Latest OsmAnd has a new way faster OpenGL render engine, and it can do proper public transport routing. Of course it also has voice navigation and many more advanced features but a steeper learning curve.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @franzap OP 3 May 2023

Way better than OsmAnd, nicer looking maps, much better collection and search of points of interest. OsmAnd search is terrible. At least in my area