Organic Maps (Unofficial)

I tried two fairly basic searches and both had pretty fundamental flaws that make it very hard to consider using OM as a main navigation app.

First: it doesn't seem to be able to use common informal names for places. If I search "Maccas" on GM, it correctly shows a number of McDonald's restaurants, as well as Maccas competitors like Hungry Jacks. In OM I get a few places literally named "Macca's", followed by a bunch of much more tenuous results. No actual Maccas shows up.

Second, and probably more serious: it doesn't tell me where something is. I typed in my street name, and understandably a number of results with that name came up. It tells me the city and state they're in, but doesn't get more fine-grained than that. With multiple of the same street in a given LGA, it is basically impossible to search by street address if the search result doesn't narrow it down to suburb. This seems like an incredibly small fix to make, but also a mind boggling error to not already have.

It would be so cool if one could host our own map! After all the phone is providing GPS and just needs the backend to work.

I have a side project, a travel planner. I just added gpx export so I can use Organic Maps offline while traveling. Is there any way for me to include a color within the gpx file that organic maps will understand?

Thanks

Hello, I use graohene and by default there is not a TTS application installed.

Do you have any recommendations that work well with organic maps?

I could probably look this up myself but i see additional value in engaging with this new community.

The most important function i am looking for is house members can see and create markers/pins on the map for others to see and optionally accessible using ios.

The Reddit community has 735 subscribers that's 393 (44%) more than what we have and is 214 days older.

I will try keep posting here so this one can be the go to place for the discussion.

Hopefully we will have more progress of this system.

At first it was rough around the edges but after I filled in the missing information to the database my experience got a whole lot better and now I get to enjoy the best looking maps app!

Number of Downloads:

Google Maps 10b (90.4%)

Maps Me 50m (0.4%)

Waze 50m (0.45%)

Google Maps Go 500m (4.5%)

Organic Maps 1.1m (0.009%)

Total: 11.05b

Number of Reviews Play Store:

Google Maps 18.5m (64%)

Maps Me 1.27m (4.4%)

Waze 8.77m (30.3%)

Google Maps Go 313k (1%)

Organic Maps 103k (0.03%)

Total: 28.8m

Number of Reviews Appstore:

Google Maps 731k (74.6%)

Maps Me 12k (1.2%)

Waze 233k (23.7%)

Apple Maps 2.5k (0.2%)

Organic Maps 85u (0.08%)

Total: 979.35k

Number of Contributors:

Google Maps 120m (91.9%)

Openstreetmaps 10.5m (8%)

Total: 130.5m

Community Size on Lemmy

Organic Maps 318u (55.3%)

Apple Maps 257u (44.6%)

Total: 575u

Edit 1: fixed the inconsistency of the numbers placement.

I’m really appreciating the fact people are seeing the value in the app with it being FOSS, beautiful, lightweight.

My PR adding FOSS fused location support to #organicmaps was merged

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/9575

It uses the #microG play-services-location library which is a #FOSS re-implementation of the proprietary Google surveillance services client library that works with both Google #GMS and µG.

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Is there an official way to request a feature? All I can find is places to submit bug reports.

It would be nice, on mobile, if the map would rotate when the phone is upside down (charging port on top). In rental cars, this is how I'll put my phone in, so I can plug it in and don't run out of battery while driving.