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CoMaps

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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

https://www.comaps.app/

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Just days since launch, and CoMaps is already making waves! Many have downloaded the new navigation app, and the reviews are rolling in!

From fast directions to support of the CoMaps principles, people are loving the way CoMaps makes getting around.

– “Finally the freedom and privacy respecting open source map app I needed.. and finally not for profit!”

– “Great start for a community run fork. I already donated, and really hope the development can keep up with that of Organic Maps.”

– “forked, improved, released, love it.”

Thank you to everyone sharing the love — and tell your friends. This is just the beginning.

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[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Still can't download it from F-droid

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

What's not working?

[–] dorky@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Hey I wrote one of those. As a mad keen map nerd, I'm so chuffed about comaps!

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

why do they make it out to be this brand new project of theirs instead of just a fork of an existing one, feels kinda misleading and shady

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It has the same annoying bug as openstreet in that when I search for places in my town they are all shown as if they are in the town on the other side of the river in the other province ! There does not seem to be any way to submit corrections.

The top 4 results in this screenshot are located in Gatineau.

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

It seems like some local, Canadian problem? I don't really understand what should show this here. Can you show with a map example what search founds and the result you actually want?

Have you contacted the local community about this? The osm Canada forum seems very active: https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/ca/95 You should ask/report about it here.

Other channels of local communities are listed here: https://openstreetmap.community/?map=45.37903%2C-75.97289&zoom=4.78

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

And Ottawa is in Ontario. It makes it hard to find places when they are listed with the wrong city.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is OrganicMaps still being developed?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To my knowledge it's still being developed. The fork to CoMaps was based on some trust issues with the company developing Organic Maps. Some info here: https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 43 minutes ago

I know why it was forked I was asking whether the contributors all came along or split

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Unclear on the crowdsourced features of there are any, like things in the road, police, etc?

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

It uses openstreetmap for the map data

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 22 hours ago

Used for a several mile hiking trip, and it works flawlessly. Spreading the word as much as I can! ♥

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Where are these reviews? Does F-Droid do reviews now?

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

Seems like they're from Google playstore reviews.