this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
456 points (100.0% liked)

Open Source

31679 readers
591 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
top 45 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The best app for users of the OSM data.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

I still prefer OsmAnd, far more feature, and at least you can ask it to avoid a specific road. Organic Map cannot.

[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 hours ago

If you're going to somewhere that the address has already been added into Open Street maps, it's amazing.

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 16 points 15 hours ago

$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?

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 12 points 16 hours ago

This is great! Google seems to be slowly murdering Waze which I loved. Hoping that this will replace it!

Thank-you all.

[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Why aren't they on fdroid?

Penguin pondering

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 5 points 7 hours ago

It hits the "tethered network services" anti-feature which is hidden by default in F-droid.

[–] OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 21 hours ago

Organic maps is the goat, looking forward to their linux build becoming more stable

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 25 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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 :(

[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What OSM app do you use that supports public transport?

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I do like Organic maps, but it doesn't have live bus timings and multi-bus route calculation like google does, so I still occasionally have to use that instead.

Fortunately I'm on GOS, and can atleast restrict gmaps from seeing my GPS location, but they're still able to guess where I am and where im going and build data points to sell or hand over to cops based on which bus routes I look at.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't the Transit app better for that stuff compared to Google Maps?

[–] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The app looks nice, but most of its features are locked behind a subscription, and still just uses google maps as its base.

[–] j4p@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

I found that citymapper is a great stand-in for transit. Great with bike and public transit info, plus ads can be blocked with DNS so you get full functionality! Basically dropped transit once I started using it

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

It's great for trails in America. I've used it for years. Offline maps by default and you can easily drop a pin. FYI, in the android build, you drop a pin with a triple touch. It used to be long touch.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] monty33@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Thanks for the magic earth rec! Is it FOSS?

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

No, but it's an alternative to GMaps or HERE WeGo for car navigation.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

Sadly crowd sourced traffic info isn't included in lots of countries such as mine :(

[–] orvorn@slrpnk.net 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I use it all the time! Works great.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it depends on where you live. For me it's close to useless.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

the whole thing about it using OSM data is that you can just fix that, spend a week surveying and you have the most high-detail navigation available.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Been using Magic Earth with Android Auto, and it's been working great. I prefer it over Organic Maps. While I prefer Organic's privacy focus, it was laggy on my phone and search also was more fussy and difficult to find things.

I love offline maps. I only have data enabled when I want internet access.

Magic Earth can do directions for walking without data enabled. Google Maps with an offline map still requires data to generate a route for walking.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting that the post is showing Prague. I think it's a nod to the influx of Czech users after our most popular map app, Mapy.cz by Seznam.cz, underwent enshittification to accomodate a premium tier.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Mapy.cz is still quite decent. I live in Italy and a few friends happen to know about it and praise it.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

It's especially good for the Czech Republic, the rest is just an OSM reskin (still good though). If you stop updating at 9.55.2 (9550200), you will still get the premium feature (multi-country offline maps) for free and without downsides, AFAIK. However, they have stopped server support for old versions before and it's pretty much impossible to unofficially import the map data without root.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

There is unfortunately only one way for smaller (or any for that matter) to show up, and that is people contributing to osm itself.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 36 minutes ago

Excellent point. Maybe I can get back on StreetComplete and help out

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 points 10 hours ago

how it calculates the navigation from A to B

It's still dependent on the quality of map data.