Organic Maps (Unofficial)

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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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Organic maps search seems deeply flawed (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not quite sure what you mean. OSM has the street I was searching for already. It just happens that there's a different street with the same name in another suburb of the same city. And Organic Maps doesn't display the suburb in its search.