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Organic Maps is the best open source Maps App I've ever tried (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's essentially an open source fork of maps.me by the original creators.

I've been using OSMAnd for years, but it always felt laggy and not that reliable. Searching was slow and so on. Many street or things it didn't instantly find.

In the Graphene App Store I jnust discovered Accrescent (another app store thing but only with like 10 apps - they're all gold though, god damn)

An in there I found organic maps. And this shit is google maps level responsive. If you're on the lookout for a google maps replacement - consider trying this.

Byeeee

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the share, had no idea. It felt so nice that I already added two contributions to OpenStreetMap.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Astronomical Clock in Prague is like a fucking wormhole for humans. Last time I was there it felt there was like a thousand people in one small place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

my wife forced me to get up really early to look at it without coffee so I wasn't quite as whelmed as I should've been. Prague is lovely though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Idk ... In their description on f-droid they crossed out "no pesticides" and wrote "purely organic" ... It implies they are using organic pesticides. Not sure if that's something for me tbh.

Edit: screenshot added

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Caffeine and nicotine are legit organic insecticides, that might be a deeper joke about coffee and cigarettes powering development

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It is great. But too bad for me - I live 40km away from the nearest town, in the forest of northern Sweden. So the coverage here is quite not so good. Practically all I see is the main road.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can actually contribute to it. There areso.me great mobile apps for this. I recommend Vespucci for in detail changes(creating new structures or editing their properties) and Street Complete for filling missing information.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

It's open street map data. If there isn't mapping info for your area, you can fix that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

In Berlin it was missing some public transportations like tram

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Specifically for Prague (ha! I'm here now) mapy is insanely good

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is pretty solid. It lacks some advanced features such as routing around preset areas but that's a minor complaint.

Aldo it is only as good as OSM. Get to work on the map.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also the search doesn't work, so there is that...

Also using it in android auto is a pain and every action takes between 10x and 100x longer than on the phone.

But yeah it is pretty good and I try to contribute to it when I can. I don't know how to contribute to bad instruction translations though. It just says "verlaat" on an exit in dutch which grammatically makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I noticed that it only downloads local maps initially. You can download more maps and expand the area that it searches in. Maybe this is why you are having issues with searches? I assume that if you search for a place in a map that it hasn't downloaded it may have trouble finding it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You should open an issue

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Does it do navigation with routes based on current traffic conditions? Because that's table stakes to me.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I just started using it, and I would say it's even snappier then G Maps. I was pretty skeptical at first, and it does have a few things I miss, like public transport live updates, but I can use the app of the local provider for that and in my experience G Maps can be quute inaccurate anyway. No way I'm going back now. You need some space to preload the maps though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Organic Maps is my goto solution for car navigation because it is very quick, responsive and does not require an high end phone. It just works. However for anything more advanced than that (e.g. live location sharing or recording, planning a hiking trip, navigating mountain bike trails, contributing to OpenStreemMap), OSMAnd is still without contender.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It is nice app but the problem is it doesn't show Czech hiking and cycling routes by default. I didn't figured out how to enable them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wow that genuinely looks unbelievable!

It's like an old mall or whatever map except without you are here and movable!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

What until you discover OSM (that's what Organic maps uses)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's my go to! Also check out the [email protected] community

Edit: sorry, it looks like the more active community is [email protected] but I guess you can join both lol!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Shame it doesn't do street numbers (possibly an OSM limitation?). Other than that, solid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You need to go around with street complete and add numbers. It takes time but it is fun and good exercise.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Many street numbers do not exist in OpenStreetMap because no one created them! So if you know about some area with this issue, help edit the map!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

StreetComplete tasks got my neighborhood to be the best-mapped little village I've ever seen! 😎

Since I'm walking around for exercise anyway, I've got most of the addresses, and now I'm working on the fire hydrants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

fidel-salute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Depends what you mean with "doesn't do". I haven't used Organic maps that much yet, but OSMand can handle street numbers. So Organic maps should too.

However it handles them very poorly, you have to type the address in a certain way or it won't recognise the number in it. Sharing from another app works pretty well most of the time though.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (11 children)

For driving I recommend Magic Earth, it's based on OSM data but uses proprietary traffic information as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we don't need traffic Information Organic maps is fine too. It now even says where you have to turn which is a major improvement.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It now even says where you have to turn

Only if the map has road lanes defined. That means: everybody join OpenStreetMap and map your local area! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didnt knew that. Good that I regularly try to add more data to OSM.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Will check this out, thanks for the recommendation!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I second magic earth for driving. The only reason I haven't entirely removed Google maps from my phone yet is because magic earth doesn't have data on business hours. This is the last killer feature I'm waiting for.

In the meantime I'm routing for any open source map that can do live traffic and business info.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Could just use yelp or a browser for business hours.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Interesting. Do you happen to know where it gets its traffic data from? I haven't yet personally found anything nearly as useful as Waze.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

They collect location of their users but anonimize every data on device, they can't track anyone personally. They also sell their SDK to businesses and collect data from there as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From reading the Magic Earth FAQ, I believe the user data actually isn't used for traffic at all (at least the manually reported events certainly aren't).

Edit: never mind I missed a later part in the FAQ:

Do you share data with third parties?

We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it's not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Yeah, you can see that organic maps is sadly not there yet in terms of driving-interface, but hopefully its getting there soon.

Afaik the app is far younger than magic earth and for what it is its super good. I'm so stoked to see how organic maps is gonna develop in the coming years

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