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Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by mnicky »

pilina wrote: post #81
dopidopHN2 wrote: post #27

Great for hiking and sharing path. So nice to be able to do that locally and just send a .gpx file

Mapy.com does that really well [0] (not affiliated). Not open source though. It uses mix of sources - OSM included - to render map (best render imo - especially the "outdoor" layer) and they are pretty large contributor to OSM in Europe. In free tier you can have one country downloaded for offline use. Sharing .gpx is no problem. Traffic data only in Central Europe. [0]: https://mapy.com

Traffic info is for Central Europe plus favorite vacation destinations like Croatia and Italy. I don't know how reliable though.

I agree that the outdoor layer render is probably the best there is!

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by martin- »

pixelesque wrote: post #92
adamjb wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CoMaps remembers the zoom and position of your last session and returns there on launch

Which isn't particularly helpful if you're moving around a lot. Would be nice for a preference.

I just opened CoMaps. The first thing that happened was that it zoomed out from my previous location in another city, and then zoomed in on my current position.

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by jamesrr39 »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #108
Cider9986 wrote: post #12

I use CoMaps, it works great. You get notified in the app to download the updated maps you selected every 2 weeks or so. Could be wildly different than that, just what I notice. It's timing estimates are often 5-15 minutes off Apple Maps, which I find accurate, on ~two hour drives, but I imagine it depends on the traffic. To improve OpenStreetMap, which CoMaps uses as the data source, I use StreetComplete[1]–it puts…

Very interesting. Can the Street Complete be used to improve accessibility of a region, say to mark the availability of a ramp?

yes, there are questions like that (steps, ramp, etc). Also questions about road surfaces, pavement/sidewalk, etc

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by kreco »

Sorry for the slight off-topic:

Is there any standard protocol/format for "layers" that could be added to such Map apps?

Let's say I want to write a plugin to add my own kind of data, and then I want to export this new kind of data so that someone can import them.

Or I want to create a website with my own data on top of existing one.

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by lrevesz »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #108
Cider9986 wrote: post #12

I use CoMaps, it works great. You get notified in the app to download the updated maps you selected every 2 weeks or so. Could be wildly different than that, just what I notice. It's timing estimates are often 5-15 minutes off Apple Maps, which I find accurate, on ~two hour drives, but I imagine it depends on the traffic. To improve OpenStreetMap, which CoMaps uses as the data source, I use StreetComplete[1]–it puts…

Very interesting. Can the Street Complete be used to improve accessibility of a region, say to mark the availability of a ramp?

Yes! Accessability quests I often see are: - Do these steps have a ramp? (with several ramp-type options) - How many steps are here? - Do these steps have a handrail? - Is there tactile paving at the top and bottom of these steps? - Does this crossing have tactile paving? - Are there sound signals for the blind here? - Do these traffic lights have a button to request a walk signal? - What's the height of the curb at this crossing? - Is this place wheelchair accessible?

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by _factor »

duxup wrote: post #109
patcon wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont know anything about this app besides your framing of "out-of-nowhere community builds an app" but am sometimes suspicious of nation states building these types of open source project forks. It's so easy now, and the cost seems incredibly low, to get into very intimate workflows (of very specific types of people). We've already seen attackers simulate whole communities for attacks on individuals, and I'm just w…

> sometimes suspicious of nation states building these types of open source project forks Is there an example of this? To what end?

To what end? I can think of 10 reasons immediately off the top of my head, but it’s far easier to fill existing open source projects with agent contributors for most of them.

Do you really need someone to rhyme out why state actors do what they do?

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by goodpoint »

h4kunamata wrote: post #74

I use CoMaps, it works like a charm on GrapheneOS + Android Auto. I have also contributed to the OpenStreetMap by adding POI and requesting logic to be changed. The only major issue which I got used to but sucks, is the search when it does not involved famous places or streets or both. Streets will be shown as minor or major and alike, I do need to use Google Maps Browser version to find the place, and the on CoMaps…

Stop shilling graphene. We can tell.

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by pastk »

ponkipo wrote: post #75

I've read both Organic Maps thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446 (as it's my favorite map app I use for years around the world, and I'm an active OSM contributor as well) which quickly became overrun with CoMaps followers trash-talking about OM, now this thread appears. What I find interesting to see, and I think it's not just me who can see this - that basically every mention of CoMaps and why it is…

> made by... "community"? We don't even know who that is, original developers and people with experience are not involved.

FYI I've been the most active non-shareholder contributor of Organic Maps for 3+ years. Though you won't see me (or other ex-OM contributors who've left to start CoMaps) in OM github contributor stats anymore, because OM had banned us (and nowadays they also ban users in their chats and SM accounts for just mentioning CoMaps). But you can still see our PRs, e.g. I've authored Outdoor map style amongst many other improvements.

You're right though that CoMaps had been founded because of things like governance, transparency, community and FOSS values, while many users are just interested in features (and hence often prefer Maps.ME even, which is like 10x more popular than OM looking at downloads).

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