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Organic Maps is the best open source Maps App I've ever tried

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

hummingbird ,

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.

RubberElectrons ,
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve used organic for several hikes. What was missing?

hummingbird ,

Here a a few things that I miss from OsmAnd:

  • adding more than a handful of routing points is tedious
  • you cannot plan partially or fully independent from existing roads
  • no way to save and restore a planned trip
  • no overlays for hill shading or incline visualization. Very useful for assessing the effort of a route.
  • no public transport support. Very useful for planning a trip with transitions.
  • no rain radar
  • satellite view
SeekPie ,

For me, it’s even better than GMaps, because it lets me navigate on bike paths, which GMaps couldn’t.

istanbullu ,

It’s also improving really fast. Organic Maps has a great community of developers.

jjjalljs ,

Does it know how to navigate NYC public transit? That’s a big use case for me. I don’t need driving directions. I need to know which subway is closest.

sunbytes ,

Ok downloaded. Seems very nice!

Still working out how to get directions but all things in good time.

kokesh ,
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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.

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

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

cows_are_underrated ,

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.

Tempo ,
@Tempo@hexbear.net avatar

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

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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.

unknowing8343 ,

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!

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Lots of places have street numbers (I can see them on the map) but for some reason don’t come up in search.

I use Magic Earth because, for some reason, it doesn’t have this problem.

I also use GMaps WV to get the address from Google and then just share it to another app.

Wiz ,

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.

newerAccountWhoDis ,

fidel-salute

possiblylinux127 ,

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

Matriks404 ,

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.

funkless_eck ,

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.

Suoko ,
@Suoko@feddit.it avatar

In Berlin it was missing some public transportations like tram

a_new_sad_me ,

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

imPastaSyndrome ,

Wow that genuinely looks unbelievable!

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

possiblylinux127 ,

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

BlossomingAsp ,

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.

plactagonic ,

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.

gedaliyah ,
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It’s my go to! Also check out the !open_street_maps community

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

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