Announcing CoMaps! Navigate with Privacy - Discover more of your journey!
from CoMaps@programming.dev to privacy@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 10:53
https://programming.dev/post/33269684

Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce the release of CoMaps to Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and F-Droid!

CoMaps Highlights

· Offline Search and Route: Plan and navigate your trips without internet

· Saves battery: Efficient design that does not drain your battery

· Privacy-respecting: no identify people, no tracking, no data collection

· Free and No Ads: completely free, your journey is smooth

What makes CoMaps special?

CoMaps is a community-driven open-source navigation app · Open & Transparent: All decisions are made in public, with full transparency.

· Community Empowerment: You have a voice in how the app evolves.

· Free & Not-for-Profit: Our focus is on creating value for the community, not generating profit.

Download CoMaps Today

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A split image, the left half is the CoMaps olive green background with text on it reading "Announcing CoMaps Download", below icons for Google Play, Apple App Store and F-Droid. The right half has an image of a mountain landscape with a lake, overlayed with the text "Discover more of your journey".

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 03 Jul 11:10 next collapse

Nice and simple. But in public transport it says “U-Bahn (metro) not yet available in this region” (Zurich). Guess that’s future content.

Stzyxh@feddit.org on 04 Jul 21:27 collapse

Yea, Public Transport is not so good in Comaps, but it’s planned to make it better codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/299

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone on 03 Jul 11:21 next collapse

This looks identical to Organic Maps ?

murky0106@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 11:26 next collapse

Ye I installed and it is the same. No mention of it being a fork either

murky0106@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 11:28 next collapse

I lied it says on their github

murky0106@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 11:35 next collapse

news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/ TLDR: Forked due to governance and transparency issues in Organic Maps.

CoMaps focuses on community control, privacy, and open source.

Aims for independent, transparent development with offline maps.

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 03 Jul 18:28 collapse

Fork you, liar!

eneff@discuss.tchncs.de on 03 Jul 11:41 collapse

None at all.

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dracs@programming.dev on 03 Jul 11:27 next collapse

They forked it

malwieder@feddit.org on 03 Jul 11:28 collapse
furtiveParalysis@jlai.lu on 03 Jul 11:48 next collapse

Switch operated with success. Export locations from OM, open kmz file with comaps, done.

anytimesoon@feddit.uk on 04 Jul 23:00 collapse

How do you export locations from om? can’t find anything in the settings

Philamand@jlai.lu on 03 Jul 12:16 next collapse

Thank you, it seems really nice.

Edit: I’m on a camping trip and I was mad because the app wasn’t able to find my next stop. Turns out that I downloaded the wrong map because I suck at local geography.

alexdeathway@programming.dev on 03 Jul 12:19 next collapse

For me Tracks appears ruptured, any fix for that?

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 12:14 collapse

Pleae report that on on their repo (with a logfile too) instead of here.

mogoh@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 13:13 next collapse

What is or will be different to organic maps, besides the governing? I have organic maps on my phone and I do not see a reason to switch for now.

Undaunted@feddit.org on 03 Jul 14:24 next collapse

You probably won’t gain much right now, but as the development on Organic Maps has stalled, you might encounter bugs not being fixed, no new features etc. If it stays like that, you’d probably want to switch at some point.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 15:31 collapse

Didn’t organic maps change to comaps ?

baatliwala@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 15:46 collapse

Comaps is a fork I think. Organic maps will live on

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 03 Jul 18:29 collapse

Linger on*

baatliwala@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 22:02 collapse

Have the primary contributers moved to CoMaps as well?

voytrekk@sopuli.xyz on 03 Jul 14:28 next collapse

Will AndroidAuto work if installed from F-Droid or will I need to install the version from Google Play like Organic Maps?

relic4322@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 14:56 collapse

It didnt for me. I installed Comaps from fdroid the other day, and it didnt come up on androidauto. I guess I could try installing it from the app store and see.

ssroxnak@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 15:10 collapse

There’s a setting hidden in Android Auto that let’s you pick what apps to show. I think it’s within the app’s developer settings.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 15:32 next collapse

You’re right. They try to hide it from you.

relic4322@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 17:24 next collapse

amazeballs, thanks!

relic4322@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 17:44 collapse

found it but was super limited. went into developer settings and enabled unknown sources but it didnt change the options. did some searches but cant find any way of really doing anything about it without rooting my phone. so meh.

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works on 04 Jul 05:56 collapse

Someone needs to develop an open source replacement for android auto and really stick it to Alphabet

relic4322@lemmy.ml on 04 Jul 11:56 collapse

you are not kidding, this one is driving me crazy. no pun intended.

vodka@feddit.org on 03 Jul 14:50 next collapse

Any plans for making it available on Accrescent?

migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 15:13 next collapse

Do we think traffic data will ever be available for a project like this one? Or maybe it already is and I just don’t know.

OminousOrange@lemmy.ca on 03 Jul 15:29 next collapse

Traffic data kind of requires driver tracking data to be sent to the cloud, which usually goes against the philosophy of projects like this. Unless they’re obtaining it from a third party, I doubt it’ll be a feature they implement.

lorski@sopuli.xyz on 03 Jul 19:28 next collapse

This

communism@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 20:11 next collapse

I think it would be fine if it were opt-in, but then you wouldn’t get enough data to get accurate traffic estimates

obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Jul 23:59 collapse

I’ve wondered if you could even if it was slowly build up a database of traffic infromation and have it be an opt in feature. Like I know in general in my city when things get busiser so I know when to avoid certain parts.

InFerNo@lemmy.ml on 04 Jul 23:01 collapse

OsmAnd seems to do this.

They predict traffic patterns based on random UUID. I don’t know how it works but it seems to be default on.

[deleted] on 03 Jul 19:04 next collapse

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Stzyxh@feddit.org on 04 Jul 21:25 collapse
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works on 03 Jul 15:31 next collapse

I’ve tried liking co maps, but here wego works so much better, in the US…

superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 17:08 next collapse

Has there been any progress on the actual map data? Last time I tried Organic Maps the places I wanted to go didn’t come up in search, and when I planned a road trip with it it planned the trip hours longer than Google maps.

randy@lemmy.ca on 03 Jul 19:18 next collapse

That sounds like an issue with the underlying OpenStreetMap data that is used by Organic Maps (and CoMaps, and OsmAnd, and others). Map quality depends on where you are in the world and who is contributing to the maps there. If data is incomplete around you, you could contribute to it (but easier said than done, I know).

I can’t say why the route would be hours longer than Google maps, but I’ve noticed OsmAnd~ tends to overestimate drive time for me (I think it overestimates delay from traffic lights). Or it could just be that calculating routes on your phone doesn’t always give results as good as calculating routes on Google’s servers.

iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 19:47 collapse

God forbid you make a wrong turn with OSMAnd, the recalculating time is atrocious, and it’s not unlikely that you’re unable to stop, so it recalculates based on where you were, or in such a way to where you can’t follow it’s new guidance.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 12:11 collapse

You could use Streetcomplete to fill in the missing data yourself.

TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works on 04 Jul 17:34 collapse

This is sick. It makes mobile updates to OSM nice and easy. Thanks for sharing!

[deleted] on 03 Jul 20:48 next collapse

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InFerNo@lemmy.ml on 04 Jul 08:46 next collapse

I use Osmand, how does this compare?

washipp@lemmy.ml on 04 Jul 09:06 next collapse

For me its much simpler to use and more straight forward. That being said, I feel like osmand allows you to be much more precise when selecting a route. But I havnt really used osmand that much

cellardoor@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 12:07 next collapse

Best there is! I was using OrganicMaps and now CoMaps. Such a good seemingly genuine piece of software.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 12:08 collapse

Simpler and less features but far lighter.

QueenFern@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 17:52 next collapse

I can’t get it to work with Android Auto on GrapheneOS. Any pointers?

Zykino@programming.dev on 05 Jul 11:00 collapse

From where are you downloading the app? I’ve read that either F-Droid reject Android-Auto because of binary blobs, or Google have some way of blocking non-approved builds (not from the playstore) in the car.

Edit: there is another Android-Auto thread.

QueenFern@lemmy.zip on 06 Jul 02:43 collapse

Thanks for your replies! I originally downloaded the app from F-droid, but based on yours and others’ advice, I deleted and downloaded through Aurora instead. I also tried the “hidden settings” within Android Auto mentioned in the other thread, but that didn’t work. I’ll know more I suppose when I’m next in my truck.

dukeofdummies@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 21:40 next collapse

Holy crap, this map is awesome. They have the grills, picnic tables, even all the ski lifts on the ski hill.

Don’t care if the graphics look like they came from the 90s. I love the details

Hupf@feddit.org on 04 Jul 22:31 collapse

That’s OpenStreetMap data for you - come check out the project if you’d like!

[deleted] on 05 Jul 06:58 next collapse

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guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Jul 22:44 collapse

Awesome! Downloading immediately, but does anyone know why it has such a jarring transition from zooming in out? There’s such a huge change in how much information I can see from just a tiny amount of zooming.

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lock@lemmy.ml on 15 Jul 06:51 collapse

Why not just use the Maps app if your already on iOS?