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If you’re going to somewhere that the address has already been added into Open Street maps, it’s amazing.
Organic Maps is great. Recently learned about Geo Share, which makes my job doing deliveries possible with Organic Maps. It basically redirects gMaps links to Organic Maps (even from food delivery apps).
$0 spend on marketing - pure Organic growth
They cooked, also interested in learning about the story with the party comment at the end about regretting inviting maps.me team without background check. What happened?
Organic maps is probably my favourite osm app for general use. I still have OsmAnd for various purposes, and I use Magic Earth when driving for the included traffic calculations. I hope that Organic Maps can generate some traffic data in the future. Though, I imagine for it to work well, some sort of open sharing of traffic data would need to happen to avoid fragmentation between apps.
Thanks for the magic earth rec! Is it FOSS?
As Kilgore said, it isn’t FOSS. And while it’s hard to prove, they claim they don’t collect any user data, and instead make their money through partnering with businesses.
Sadly crowd sourced traffic info isn’t included in lots of countries such as mine :(
If only it had support for public transport. In theory it would be my favorite OSM app but I can’t really use it without support for that :(
What OSM app do you use that supports public transport?
I don’t think it’s OSM but I use Here we go. I don’t particularly like it but it has public transport support and isn’t Google Maps.
I think HERE uses it’s own mapdata.
The best app for users of the OSM data.
I still prefer OsmAnd, far more feature, and at least you can ask it to avoid a specific road. Organic Map cannot.
I use both. Osmand+ allows me to contribute way more efficiently with PDIs and GPS traces as well as editing existing features, but when I want to navigate, I prefer Organic Maps. I also like more their rendering since it’s faster across all my devices. They are both useful apps. My main gripe is with the data in my area, as everyone uses Google or Apple’s data we struggle with contributors.
Why aren’t they on fdroid?
Penguin pondering
Honestly guys. I’ve used organic maps and osmand. Don’t like both. For my roadtrip I plan on using Waze or something. For some reason it’s so slow and buggy on my device, osmand crashes everytime and organic maps doesn’t have enough data of all the small places on the roadtrip.
There is unfortunately only one way for smaller businesses (or any for that matter) to show up, and that is people contributing to osm itself.
Edit: a word.
Excellent point. Maybe I can get back on StreetComplete and help out
Its not about contributing to the map data. There’s quite few quality issues with organic maps, from small things in the UI to how it calculates the navigation from A to B. I want to like organic maps, but its still far from usable for me. I do however regularly contribute to OSM - mainly thanks to streetcomplete.
I’ve been looking for something like this! So far I had an open street map bookmark but this is way better for when I’m hiking. Other commercial maps sucks for hikes.
So?
A FOSS project that’s actually good
