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Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by wlesieutre »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #18
himata4113 wrote: post #17

This is the only app that allows you to easily add stops and permanently save paths for biking. Honestly a life changer.

As great as Waze and Google Maps are for dynamic routing and responsive path-finding, I am using rental scooters now, and at this point I really need to design some bicycle routes with intention and purpose, and Maps simply refuses to save any "dragged" or "pinned" route in any meaningful way, and I suppose this is deliberate, because A.I. knows best, kids!

Even for driving the major apps are crappy about routes. I was on Foothills Parkway a while ago and wanted to keep Apple Maps running just as a "miles/time remaining" indicator. It can't do anything other than fastest route, with the option to ignore highways.

So unless you set a waypoint halfway between every single entry/exit, it will want to get off the parkway and take US 321 instead.

You can manually set up the route using a bunch of waypoints, but then it tells you the distance/time to next stop (which are arbitrary map points) instead of the distance to the end of the parkway, and you can't save the route so you'd better not touch it or want to look at anything else on the map once you have it set up.

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by miroljub »

random3 wrote: post #5

Relevant thread from yesterday's thread on the original project this was forked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794575 https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/ > Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareh…

Nitpick: Organic Map is not original project. It's a fork of Maps.me.

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Post by gedankenstuecke »

nobody42 wrote: post #22
anyaya1 wrote: post #14

How is this different from OpenStreetMaps? Or does it just use OSM as its underlying engine?

Its a renderer. It bakes live OSM data once very few weeks.

Since a few weeks CoMaps updates its map data roughly every week, so maps are a lot fresher now (also compared to Organic Maps :))

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Post by dopidopHN2 »

mcv wrote: post #15
nunobrito wrote: post #7

Anyone here has been using coMaps and care to share their experience, especially in comparison to OrganicMaps? My only complaint to OrganicMaps was the slowness to calculate a direction, which in part is certainly because the path is calculated locally instead of some cloud server but old garmin devices also weren't online and can calculate paths on far less powerful hardware. So I'm guessing there is room for improv…

My biggest issue with OrganicMaps is that the search isn't very good. It really struggles to find my destination sometimes. That's the one thing I'm afraid Google will always be better at.

I have the same grippe.

I was talking in deep in the weed OSM signal group and apparently its a split between the address data not being present, and OrganicMap / CoMap being bugged.

The way to triage is asking nominatim, the geocoder from OSM. If it can resolve : its on the client side, if not, its a data problem.

I'm just parroting here. Happy to learn more.

This is THE only issue I have with those OSM client ( I don't care about traffic )

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Post by KolmogorovComp »

Tangential, but does anyone know if an app exists that that the video feed of your phone with the GPS loc and reads the signs from the road and compare it to OSM to update it if necessary?

Let’s be clear, in the end I use Waze for routing due to the traffic updates, but I see sometimes outdated speed limits and know OSM is one of its sources.

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Post by himata4113 »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #18
himata4113 wrote: post #17

This is the only app that allows you to easily add stops and permanently save paths for biking. Honestly a life changer.

As great as Waze and Google Maps are for dynamic routing and responsive path-finding, I am using rental scooters now, and at this point I really need to design some bicycle routes with intention and purpose, and Maps simply refuses to save any "dragged" or "pinned" route in any meaningful way, and I suppose this is deliberate, because A.I. knows best, kids!

Anything other than cars I believe google maps/waze is nearly unuseable for navigation, yah. I think they even removed "bike" pathing too. Public transport is pretty alright, but very inaccurate vs local app when they use the same data and routing is lacking intelligence sometimes.

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by maelito »

mcv wrote: post #15
nunobrito wrote: post #7

Anyone here has been using coMaps and care to share their experience, especially in comparison to OrganicMaps? My only complaint to OrganicMaps was the slowness to calculate a direction, which in part is certainly because the path is calculated locally instead of some cloud server but old garmin devices also weren't online and can calculate paths on far less powerful hardware. So I'm guessing there is room for improv…

My biggest issue with OrganicMaps is that the search isn't very good. It really struggles to find my destination sometimes. That's the one thing I'm afraid Google will always be better at.

It doesn't take so much to enable a good server search on top of OSM + openaddresses.

Local search will always be slow and bad.

But server search doesn't need that much. It's just that OS initiatives are severely understaffed. OS apps that have a Photon instance are already rare to find. Let's not talk about having an Overpass instance...

What is very hard to reproduce is Google's place review data.

It's golden to enable good search.

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