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Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by feb »

hoschicz wrote: post #158
lucideer wrote: post #47

The 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…

I should have mentioned it. There's now a mention at the end of the post: I'm aware that one fork already exists, but it hasn't seen any updates for a year and the app doesn't seem to work at this time. The plan is to eventually integrate axel's work back into the app.

When looking at the commit history on github of axet project, the most recent commit is only 4 months old. That comment about it not seeing updates since years looks wrong.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by Liskni_si »

pax wrote: post #155
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The international version of this is Windy Maps - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... . I highly recommend it - excellent for outdoors / hiking, tracking route etc. Also has a very polished UI.

with the downside of them being different services, thus you can't have the same account (saved places / routes) on both the web version and the mobile app. Am I wrong?

You can if you use the "mapy.cz" version of the mobile app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.mapy

I have no idea what the point of the "international" version is, as this one has English translation as well.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by cxr »

matoro wrote: post #140
CGamesPlay wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the F-Droid fork have an app store version? Author did say they used an iPhone.

No, and they won't because it's against Apple's terms of service to license your app as GPL.

Even if this were true, it's irrelevant since Maps.me isn't GPL software to begin with.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by improbable22 »

ruph123 wrote: post #73

Is 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…

Some of them make downloading more of a hurdle than others, insisting that you download a whole country, or figure out what region you want.

On MapOut at least, you zoom in too far & then click the tile you don't have. On a good network there's a little more friction than on (say) google maps, but not so bad. A few MB, never hundreds of MB.

(And on a bad to nonexistent network, it's golden to be absolutely sure that it still has what you looked at yesterday.)

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by mbirth »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #118
piaste wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A critical aspect OSMand is missing for me are business information. OSM maps will include store and venue locations, but Google Maps will show me their opening hours and give me their phone number, website, and (for restaurants) menu and food pictures. Looking up that kind of info is, [i]by far[/i], the most common reason for me to open the maps app in the first place, before I actually decide that I want to go ther…

Osmand shows opening hours etc. when available, just do a short tap on the POI. As this is a "news for nerds" website, it is worth mentioning that if you find that info absent on OSM, then that means that you can add it for the benefit of all.

For people that don't want to look into editing OSM directly, there's this website to easily add business information: https://www.onosm.org

Entered data will be added as a note to OSM and experienced editors will then correct/add the business on the map.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by improbable22 »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #26
fab1an wrote: post #5

Too 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…

MapOut is a superb alternative for iOS. Intuitive interface and lovely cartography.

MapOut is great. Does one thing but does it very well, without distractions. Has contours (and a 3D presentation) unlike some OSM-based apps. Works well offline. No subscription nonsense, just a few dollars up front.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by bambax »

vetinari wrote: post #69
bambax wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to self-host tiles from OSM in 2013; it was possible but quite difficult indeed; how has it improved since then?

Today, you would generate vector tiles (thus taking much less disk space) and you can style or re-style them after they are generated.

Oh, excellent, thank you. That's so much better indeed.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by ce4 »

brnt wrote: post #160
tmoravec wrote: post #24

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For hiking, check out https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka . While it focuses on central Europe, it regularly imports OSM data worldwide and I found the coverage pretty good.

Can't find it on F-droid, perhaps under a different name?

Maps (Offline OpenStreetMap maps) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.maps

Source is hosted here:

https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/tree/HEAD

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by paultnylund »

tmoravec wrote: post #24
fab1an wrote: post #5

Too 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…

For hiking, check out https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka . While it focuses on central Europe, it regularly imports OSM data worldwide and I found the coverage pretty good.

Norway-specific, but https://norgeskart.no/ is insanely detailed for hiking, skiing, etc.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

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Post by Youden »

hoschicz wrote: post #158
lucideer wrote: post #47

The 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…

I should have mentioned it. There's now a mention at the end of the post: I'm aware that one fork already exists, but it hasn't seen any updates for a year and the app doesn't seem to work at this time. The plan is to eventually integrate axel's work back into the app.

It was updated 4 months ago, it's actively maintained and I use it frequently. Someone else was looking at the wrong listing and you may have done the same thing. The correct listing is simply called "Maps"

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/

Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/tree/HEAD

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