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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by matkoniecz »

goobatrooba wrote: post #10
nickspacek wrote: post #6

I used this for my family's recent trip in Lisbon and Prague. It worked great! The OSM data was reasonably up-to-date for all of our destinations; I don't remember encountering bad information, even though I often double-checked with other mapping providers (which aren't immune to issues with out-of-date information). One awesome feature was being able to find "drinking water" while we were walking around. I did come…

Best ist you can directly report the broken tap from the app. So the dates will be fixed.

Even better is to edit directly at osm.org.

Reporting from within CoMaps generates note that will sometimes wait years for verification.

Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by matkoniecz »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #37

I use this regularly when I go on long walks out of the city (including the couple of times I've done stretches of the Camino de Santiago). The offline map support and being able to load and display GPX tracks are really helpful there. Not only because you can sometimes find yourself with spotty reception in remote areas, but also because if you are out all day and your phone battery is not the best, you can just sti…

> OSM as "Google Maps but worse" but IMO it is clearly superior for this use case (at least, for reasonably popular routes).

for less popular areas it may be worse, but Google Maps often will be degraded even more

I have yet to find case where for hiking/cycling Google was better (I am kind of cheating as I edit on OpenStreetMap and fix problems if found)

Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by jech »

atkirtland wrote: post #23
jech wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It has more features but is slower and clunkier Just to clarify: OsmAnd has more features, CoMaps and Organic Maps are much faster. (Aside: I'm using CoMaps myself. The main missing features are tracking (I use OpenTracks for that) and public transportation (I use a website for that). End of aside.)

What website do you use for public transportation?

I've found that websites specific to a single European country or, in the case of France, to a single city are the ones that work best.

Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by jech »

olyjohn wrote: post #26
jech wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It has more features but is slower and clunkier Just to clarify: OsmAnd has more features, CoMaps and Organic Maps are much faster. (Aside: I'm using CoMaps myself. The main missing features are tracking (I use OpenTracks for that) and public transportation (I use a website for that). End of aside.)

Wait, I just used the tracking the other day and generated a GPX from it. It also drew me an elevation map and gave me some other info about the trip. Is there some other tracking that it can't do?

I stand corrected, CoMaps can do tracking. It was introduced in Organic Maps a couple of years ago, but I was already using OpenTracks, so I never switched away from it.

Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by gentile »

swasheck wrote: post #24

after about 6 years of using OSMAnd, i’m pivoting to CoMaps for a hike through switzerland that i’m leaving for tonight. i don’t actually need all of the features of OSMAnd and just downloading maps costs a subscription now. id pay outright for it but i just can’t justify a subscription for how infrequently i use it

You can download Osmand~ from F-droid which doesn't limit downloads. Or you could even download the map from another provider like bbbike or geofabrik, use osmandmapcreator (needs java) to convert the pbf to obf and then import it into the phone.

Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by r0xsh »

Funny to see this app pop up on Hacker News.

I recently started tinkering with CoMaps to make it more useful for bikepacking, since I do quite a bit of it. I don’t plan to turn this fork into a product, it’s mostly something I’m building for my own needs ; but I figured it might be interesting to share:

https://github.com/r0xsh/CoBike

Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by swasheck »

andrewshadura wrote: post #30
swasheck wrote: post #24

after about 6 years of using OSMAnd, i’m pivoting to CoMaps for a hike through switzerland that i’m leaving for tonight. i don’t actually need all of the features of OSMAnd and just downloading maps costs a subscription now. id pay outright for it but i just can’t justify a subscription for how infrequently i use it

Come on, OsmAnd's subscriptions are super cheap for the value you're getting.

maybe. i use it every other year though and otherwise simply don’t. i never said that it wasn’t super cheap, i just said it wasn’t cost-effective for my usage profile.

Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by flexagoon »

jech wrote: post #15
pietervdvn wrote: post #12

OpenStreetMap is a great ecosystem - I'm a long term contributor. Some pointers: - CoMaps is a fork of Organic Maps, which forked long time ago from Maps.me - OsmAnd is similar. It has more features but is slower and clunkier - If you see errors/missing stuff on OpenStreetMap, fix them. You need a free account for this. There are various tools to help out, such as the editor on Osm.org. Beginner-friendly editors are…

> It has more features but is slower and clunkier Just to clarify: OsmAnd has more features, CoMaps and Organic Maps are much faster. (Aside: I'm using CoMaps myself. The main missing features are tracking (I use OpenTracks for that) and public transportation (I use a website for that). End of aside.)

OsmAnd is not that much slower nowadays since they added the new OpenGL renderer. It is, however, less convenient and pretty. I think OsmAnd really shines for things like hiking, whereas for regular urban navigation CoMaps works just as well.

Re: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

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Post by hv42 »

flexagoon wrote: post #49
jech wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It has more features but is slower and clunkier Just to clarify: OsmAnd has more features, CoMaps and Organic Maps are much faster. (Aside: I'm using CoMaps myself. The main missing features are tracking (I use OpenTracks for that) and public transportation (I use a website for that). End of aside.)

OsmAnd is not that much slower nowadays since they added the new OpenGL renderer. It is, however, less convenient and pretty. I think OsmAnd really shines for things like hiking, whereas for regular urban navigation CoMaps works just as well.

Exactly my experience as well. OSMAnd is a lot better for hiking as it has 3d views, hiking routes, topo maps and better routing in general. Comaps is great for city navigation or casual usage
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