I use Osmand, how does this compare?
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Simpler and less features but far lighter.
Best there is! I was using OrganicMaps and now CoMaps. Such a good seemingly genuine piece of software.
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
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.
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.
I've tried liking co maps, but here wego works so much better, in the US..
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.
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.
I think it would be fine if it were opt-in, but then you wouldn't get enough data to get accurate traffic estimates
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Any plans for making it available on Accrescent?
Will AndroidAuto work if installed from F-Droid or will I need to install the version from Google Play like Organic Maps?
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.
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.
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.
Someone needs to develop an open source replacement for android auto and really stick it to Alphabet
you are not kidding, this one is driving me crazy. no pun intended.
amazeballs, thanks!
You're right. They try to hide it from you.
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.
Didn't organic maps change to comaps ?
Comaps is a fork I think. Organic maps will live on
Linger on*
Have the primary contributers moved to CoMaps as well?
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.
For me Tracks appears ruptured, any fix for that?
Pleae report that on on their repo (with a logfile too) instead of here.
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.
Switch operated with success. Export locations from OM, open kmz file with comaps, done.
Nice and simple. But in public transport it says "U-Bahn (metro) not yet available in this region" (Zurich). Guess that's future content.