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Re: CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app

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Post by jeroenhd »

Coming from OsmAnd, I'm always impressed by the performance of the maps.me forks, but I find their feature set rather limiting. The route planning in particular seems rather naïve, at least from what I can tell when planning routes I know well. This would send me straight into traffic light-laden roads (that, on paper, if I were the only driver, would be the shortest distance).

That said, if you're just looking for a simple maps app, I suppose OsmAnd could be quite overwhelming and this would probably be a lot better.

I never really got what the Organic Maps drama was about, but as long as the two can peacefully coexist I hope they'll work together to make their apps as good as they can be.

Re: CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app

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Post by dijital »

jamil7 wrote: post #6

I haven't followed whats going on with Organic Maps but I continue to use it and have donated to it in the past. Why the fork?

Previously discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908

Original letter regarding the dispute with Organic Map is here: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareho...

Re: CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app

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Post by teeray »

I was lamenting the other day how stagnant the whole navigation app space has become. It seemed like Waze was the last innovative one, and that was quenched after they were acquired by Google. It’s nice to see a new entrant in the category.

Re: CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app

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Post by Mashimo »

jeroenhd wrote: post #11

Coming from OsmAnd, I'm always impressed by the performance of the maps.me forks, but I find their feature set rather limiting. The route planning in particular seems rather naïve, at least from what I can tell when planning routes I know well. This would send me straight into traffic light-laden roads (that, on paper, if I were the only driver, would be the shortest distance). That said, if you're just looking for a…

Are there any sources that open source apps can use to get traffic information?

Re: CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app

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Post by mnmalst »

jeroenhd wrote: post #11

Coming from OsmAnd, I'm always impressed by the performance of the maps.me forks, but I find their feature set rather limiting. The route planning in particular seems rather naïve, at least from what I can tell when planning routes I know well. This would send me straight into traffic light-laden roads (that, on paper, if I were the only driver, would be the shortest distance). That said, if you're just looking for a…

I feel the same. I just installed it and there are almost no features besides the map of course. I am super happy with osmand.

Re: CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app

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Post by jeroenhd »

Mashimo wrote: post #14
jeroenhd wrote: post #11

Coming from OsmAnd, I'm always impressed by the performance of the maps.me forks, but I find their feature set rather limiting. The route planning in particular seems rather naïve, at least from what I can tell when planning routes I know well. This would send me straight into traffic light-laden roads (that, on paper, if I were the only driver, would be the shortest distance). That said, if you're just looking for a…

Are there any sources that open source apps can use to get traffic information?

There are government databases and various public-private partnerships, but the most common method of traffic information is by collecting users' information while driving. There are companies that resell access to that data too: https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data

OpenStreetMap doesn't even seem interested in things like "this street is closed next week Tuesday", but maybe there's another open project that collects this information for maps apps. I don't know any, though.

Re: CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app

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Post by spacemule »

The biggest thing keeping me from using any open source routing or even Google Maps is that here in Israel there are roads that are illegal to drive on either because they're access to PA territory or they're bus/taxi only. No application other than Waze avoids these, so I'm stuck using Waze. I just checked this, and to get to a building down the street from me, it wants me to YOLO myself through the bus lanes.
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