But we have it back - Mapy.cz. It's basically like Maps.me but better across most dimensions. I'm always confused why nobody know about it.
can you contribute to OSM like with maps.me ?
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Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
#72I once paid for maps.me, when it was a Swiss company before being bought by mail.ru. As it was fast, simple, offline and had no tracking. Mail.ru then decided for a different revenue stream, killed the pay option and added things I don't want, like booking.com ads and travel guides and other things ...
Quite sad, since it was a nice and slick tool, where I trusted privacy and faster than osmand or alternatives.
Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
#73Is there a reason why all the OSM alternatives on iOS (like maps.me, osmAnd, mapout, etc.) require you to download the more zoomed in maps?
I think being able to download is a nice feature but I don't often need it and would like to use an OSM-based alternative to Google Maps and zoom into any city without having to download it first.
Like: "Where was that place in Lisbon?" - "Lemme check... oh I have to download the city, one sec..." [Adding another few hundred megabytes that I will not need for a long time]
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#74The complete lack of any mention in the article of the long-running F-Droid fork effort is a bit disturbing if I'm honest. If the author had already reached out to @axet to offer to help / become a maintainer I'd imagine it would've been mentioned up top. I'm all for people creating multiple divergent open-source forks of things (diversity is great) but this doesn't seem to be divergent at all. The stated intent is t…
Does the F-Droid fork have an app store version? Author did say they used an iPhone.
Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
#75Could you please not use a centralized service like Telegram for organizing OSS.
I underand if you can't live with the limitations of IRC. But it's 2020 and we have Matrix. Protocols, not platforms.
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#76The main difference between the two images the author showed seem to be the isometric buildings models. Where do the data for these come from to begin with? I assume these can't be user generated.
For "basic" building structures (number of stories, roof type, etc.) there is different effort in the mapping community.
For different more complex buildings there are different sources of data. For isntance the city of Berlin published 3D models as part of their OpenData initiative. https://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/planen/stadtmodelle/d...
In other regions there are data sets from universities or others available.
Some limited info also on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D
Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
OsmAnd fits description perfectly, you can place bookmarks, no account required, maps from OSM, offline maps which can be used even without internet connection.
OsmAndroid sucked so badly with its seemingly hours of loading time. Search queries never worked well unless you entered exactly the string, including case and sometime whitespace. It would sometimes not find anything, unless I entered a useless whitespace after my words. In comparison to maps.me it is really really bad user experience and not to be recommended on any old phone. Your old phone will just laaaag and yo…
> Search queries never worked well unless you entered exactly the string, including case and sometime whitespace.
This. OsmAnd is packed with advanced feautures but search is unusable which is unfortunate because that's how I'd usually use a map.
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#78Too bad, maps.me was by far the best maps application for non city use, and ideal for hiking. Commendable initiative to bring it back in its original version! A few examples of why it was so great: Simple, non social bookmarks. As in: place a bookmark so you don't get lost while hiking, or when you find a nice spot you want to come back to later. Yep, a utility feature that doesn't somehow map to some stoopid busines…
Check out pocket earth, the UI is a bit clumsy but it’s clearly a labour of love by the author and has served me well in such scenarios..
Wow thank you. That is quite feature complete. It is just the ugliest map that I have ever seen. And there seems to be no way of changing the map theme. Will still try it as my default for now. Thanks!
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Check out pocket earth, the UI is a bit clumsy but it’s clearly a labour of love by the author and has served me well in such scenarios..
I second Pocket Earth.
Pocket earth with the contour maps has been my go to offline hiking map for the last 5 years - not many other openstreetmap systems have that countour data.
I think it uses the https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ dataset, which is great, but I did get caught out once by voids in shuttle data meaning there was a 1000m deep hole in the mountain map that wasn’t there!
Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
#80The complete lack of any mention in the article of the long-running F-Droid fork effort is a bit disturbing if I'm honest. If the author had already reached out to @axet to offer to help / become a maintainer I'd imagine it would've been mentioned up top. I'm all for people creating multiple divergent open-source forks of things (diversity is great) but this doesn't seem to be divergent at all. The stated intent is t…
Does the F-Droid fork have an app store version? Author did say they used an iPhone.
Since F-Droid is an Android store, it most likely doesn't even exist for iOS.
But that's kinda the price you pay there.