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Re: Organic Maps

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Post by hinata08 »

david-gpu wrote: post #100
eisa01 wrote: post #4

Organic Maps was my go to app for a navigation app where you can fix errors yourself immediately! So much better than having to work for free on the proprietary apps, and hope they accept your edits There’s a fork from one year ago, CoMaps, that is gaining different features E.g., I am adding CarPlay Dashboard support that you can test by joining the TestFlight We are in great need of both more testers and some prope…

All these apps rely on the data provided by OpenStreetMap (OSM). It is a Wikipedia-like project where anybody can contribute edits. https://www.openstreetmap.org/

yeah, so were LibreOffice and OpenOffice relying on the .odt format

CoMaps forked out of OrganicMaps after a row about money

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by maelito »

bpev wrote: post #117
maelito wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it's planned. Should work in theory, but no one tried before. Maps are so often done as native apps that to my knowledge no one tried to just use the PWA capabilities to cache tiles on the Web. Of course what's hard is cache invalidation. Does the user want to update the tiles ? Never ? Daily, weekly ? Only some regions ? Or manually ? Here's an issue about that : https://codeberg.org/cartes/web/issues/1078 It's…

FWIW, I have an experimental open-source implementation of offline-capable PWA protomaps. Haven't advertised it much, because I haven't sorted out performance (particularly on mobile), and it's a bit buggy still. Also, don't have cache invalidation. But it does work. Usually. xD app: https://maps.bpev.me source: https://tangled.org/bpev.me/maps Based on results from indexeddb pmtiles work: https://github.com/jtbaker/…

Awesome, thanks for the links.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by radec »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #107
radec wrote: post #95

Is it feasible for something like this to have heatmaps? Maybe the data could be shared/distributed via hypercore or similar. I find heatmaps are my primary way of finding new mountain biking trails and routes.

Don't think anyone other than Strava and Komoot have sufficient user-generated trail database to be useful for your use-case.

That's possible. I use RideWithGPS, maybe a lot of people use it around here. Or maybe only two other people have ridden the route, it doesn't say, but it's still super useful for finding routes.

Re: Organic Maps

#134

Post by Cider9986 »

mbirth wrote: post #122
Cider9986 wrote: post #101

StreetComplete is one of my favorite apps. It's like Pokemon Go mixed with Wikipedia because it gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMap, which powers (all?) mainstream opensource maps. Looking forward to iOS support so more people can use it. https://streetcomplete.app/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/

iOS has Every Door[1] and there’s also MapComplete[2] which works as a PWA. [1]: https://every-door.app [2]: https://mapcomplete.org

Didn't know that, very helpful.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by maelito »

bpev wrote: post #117
maelito wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it's planned. Should work in theory, but no one tried before. Maps are so often done as native apps that to my knowledge no one tried to just use the PWA capabilities to cache tiles on the Web. Of course what's hard is cache invalidation. Does the user want to update the tiles ? Never ? Daily, weekly ? Only some regions ? Or manually ? Here's an issue about that : https://codeberg.org/cartes/web/issues/1078 It's…

FWIW, I have an experimental open-source implementation of offline-capable PWA protomaps. Haven't advertised it much, because I haven't sorted out performance (particularly on mobile), and it's a bit buggy still. Also, don't have cache invalidation. But it does work. Usually. xD app: https://maps.bpev.me source: https://tangled.org/bpev.me/maps Based on results from indexeddb pmtiles work: https://github.com/jtbaker/…

Funny : there's another Ben that did his "Ben maps". https://benmaps.fr

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by davidee »

palata wrote: post #90
RetroTechie wrote: post #74

I'll repeat a question asked in an earlier thread on OM: Do there exist apps that share their offline map data? As in: install app A, dowload offline map data for country xyz, use in app A, install app B, use same map data in app B (or C, D etc) without re-downloading the map data? As I understood, that was not the case as each app uses its own format which is some underlying public geo info (presumably too big to ha…

> The sillyness & waste of this is obvious Until you realise that there is not one true way to show a map, and that different apps may actually have different needs. Suddenly it becomes obvious that not all apps can use the same shared offline data.

To further back this up, just because OSM might be a map's data source, it doesn't mean they use the same rendered vectors or images for the tiles.

I make changes to OSM so they can be propagated to a cycling-specific mapping tool I use (it's a commercial tool with their own custom map layers) - it takes about 3-4 weeks from when a change is made on OSM for it to be incorporated into their data set.

So yeah, it's not as simple as "we all use OSM so we'll just share all our rendered mapping values".

Re: Organic Maps

#138

Post by hadrien01 »

RetroTechie wrote: post #74

I'll repeat a question asked in an earlier thread on OM: Do there exist apps that share their offline map data? As in: install app A, dowload offline map data for country xyz, use in app A, install app B, use same map data in app B (or C, D etc) without re-downloading the map data? As I understood, that was not the case as each app uses its own format which is some underlying public geo info (presumably too big to ha…

This used to be a thing on Windows Phone, you could download maps in the settings and they would be available in the default Maps app, but also in HERE Maps, Transit, etc.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by fender256 »

TFNA wrote: post #49
codingjoe wrote: post #43

How is it different from OSMAnd?

It's a fork from Maps.me, the streamlined map app popular with normies. I myself use and love OSMAnd, but in the travel communities I am active in, most people react badly to OSMAnd as something arcane and nerdy.

Arcane and nerdy is a good description of OSMAnd. That's why I love it and would never switch to anything else.

Re: Organic Maps

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Post by bpev »

maelito wrote: post #135
bpev wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I have an experimental open-source implementation of offline-capable PWA protomaps. Haven't advertised it much, because I haven't sorted out performance (particularly on mobile), and it's a bit buggy still. Also, don't have cache invalidation. But it does work. Usually. xD app: https://maps.bpev.me source: https://tangled.org/bpev.me/maps Based on results from indexeddb pmtiles work: https://github.com/jtbaker/…

Funny : there's another Ben that did his "Ben maps". https://benmaps.fr

What can I say? Bens like maps I guess.
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