Overview:
Organic Maps is a free open-source Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MapsWithMe (Maps.Me) founders back from 2021.
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Also available on Linux, and with the magic of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) it works on Windows too. Basically, export your mobile data to a sync service and import on other devices.
Far better than Google Maps in many regions and works perfectly offline.
Still using Waze (Google) for traffic though.
The main use I have for navigation apps is traffic and bypassing it where possible. OSMand and Organic Maps, as well as every other app using OpenStreetMaps I’ve tried over the last 5-10 years, do not do traffic.
Currently using Here WeGo, the maps are great, the business information is up to date (at least in my area of the world) and it does traffic.
As a benefit, it’s also not renamed to Gulf of America
Organic Maps is great in many ways. It uses OSM for its mapping. As someone who regularly contributes to OSM, I appreciate that a lot.
But it doesn't do traffic, which is literally the only reason I want a navigation app.
It isn't open source, which makes it's hard to verify their claims, but Magic Earth uses OSM data and has traffic data in some countries. It has worked really well for me in the UK with arrival times being quite accurate to within a couple of minutes for 3-4 hour drives. They claim not to gather/sell any of your data, as they make their money through corporate customers.
fwiw I'm pretty sure in several countries it would be illegal for them to gather/sell your data if they've explicitly said they don't do that. I might actually trust that fact more than I'd trust the code, since they could easily build from a slightly different code base than the one shared online, if they wanted.
And if you want Organic maps let you rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Organic Maps is a frontend for open street map. IMO OsmAnd~ is way better
I use both, OSMand is way better but slow and not simple - if I was going to recommend an app I would recommend organic as OSMand would probably be too much for most, and too confusing.
And is way slower.
I use both. On a daily basis I prefer Organic Maps.
Man I would love to switch from corporate alternatives, however the review system is necessary for that.
When will Organic Maps use proper street addresses in the correct suburb? Something is lost in the translation from OSM.
Someone suggested Organic Maps to me some time ago and I really love it. Their map data is not that old (just a few days up to a month behind OSM edits), it doesn't annoy me with stupid features, it allows routing, and can fully operate offline.
My city doesn't have home addresses listed on OSM. Can I just sorta copy/paste them from Google maps, or do I have to like physically walk around to get addresses so I'm not using copyrighted material?
You cannot copy anything from Google Maps. You seed to source data either from public sources or colle~~l~~ct it first-hand.
It's kind of like Wikipedia, you have to cite the original source (State or council maps) rather than a 3rd party source.
The map data for my suburb is all kinds of wrong on Google Maps, there's a park around the corner from me which is marked as a house for starters, blindly copying that into OSM would be a disservice.
Not necessarily original source - you can use aerial imagery from Bing, for example.
The actual requirement is actually a legal one. The data must be public domain or otherwise compatible with their license.
I’ll use Organic Apps as soon as public transport integration is working in my city. ATM it seems to be a build time feature-flag, which is no use for my phone.
For public transit on OSM data, there's also OsmAnd
OsmAnd's Android Auto implementation is trash. Magic Earth is the best I've used but I know it's not FOSS
OSMAnd rules but fair warning to anyone who tries it: information overload is absolutely going to happen, go into filters and get picky with them because their default choices are.... Interesting
Love Organic, but if you want public transport, maybe have a look at Here We Go, the map app from Here aka Nokia Maps?
I love organic maps, but live traffic is something I miss. Is there a way to get that on organic maps?
No since it doesn't track you. Magic Earth uses the same map as Organic Maps (osm) and has live traffic data, but it is proprietary, not open source
Meanwhile at MapQuest: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/
God, I remember printing out MapQuest directions when I needed to get somewhere.
HERE WeGo still has Gulf of Mexico, at least for non US folks. Can anyone from US of A confirm it's the same for you?
Affirmative on Android
Does it work with Android Auto?
Only if you install via the Google play store.
I can't get it working, but I'm using graphene os, so that's probably why.
