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Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by fc417fc802 »

an_ko wrote: post #46
gonzalohm wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know if you can add hiking trails using StreetComplete? I noticed some trails are missing in my area and I would like to contribute

Last I checked, not with StreetComplete. But the OSM wiki has a table of Android apps https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android which column "Record tracks" can be sorted by, to see which apps have that feature. How I've done similar before is to record a GPS trace with an OsmAnd plugin, upload it to OSM servers, import it as an overlay in the web-based editor on desktop, and used that and satellite imagery as refe…

> an overlay in the web-based editor on desktop, and used that and satellite imagery as reference to draw in the missing trail.

If you added a gopro and SLAM to the GPS trace and imported USGS topographical data I wonder if you couldn't fully automate the process.

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Post by raybb »

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #28

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 Let’s be clear, in the end I use Waze for routing due to the traffic updates, but I see sometimes outdated speed limits and know OSM is one of its sources.

Oh I don't have a link but there was a project just like this someone hacked together a while back. I think it used Gemini live or something and as you walked and scanned things it would suggest changed to the map. It was a rough demo but seemed promising.

I've been wanting to do something similar but just by taking photos of menus and updating the POI with new hours/website/phone etc

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Post by pastk »

nine_k wrote: post #55

Do CoMaps somehow support overlays, like bus routes? OSMAnd does that, but I see no such option in CoMaps anywhere (a map layer, a separate map, etc).

There is a subway overlay. And there is marked hiking routes overlay being in development. There is a also an outdoor-focused map style (some people call it a layer too).

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by pastk »

episode404 wrote: post #47

Is it possible to change the maps' colors and contrasts now? Last time I checked I thought the lower contrast and washed-out colors compared to Organic Maps were a poor choice so I switched back to OM.

There is an outdoor map style which is more contrast to the general/default style, if that helps.

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Post by maxerickson »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #61
an_ko wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I checked, not with StreetComplete. But the OSM wiki has a table of Android apps https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android which column "Record tracks" can be sorted by, to see which apps have that feature. How I've done similar before is to record a GPS trace with an OsmAnd plugin, upload it to OSM servers, import it as an overlay in the web-based editor on desktop, and used that and satellite imagery as refe…

> an overlay in the web-based editor on desktop, and used that and satellite imagery as reference to draw in the missing trail. If you added a gopro and SLAM to the GPS trace and imported USGS topographical data I wonder if you couldn't fully automate the process.

A decent representation of the actual path is usually pretty straightforward. The metadata and topology are more of the work.

In areas where 3dep is recent, you can usually see a trail under forest cover. It's pretty great.

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Post by menturi »

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #28

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.

I remember seeing something like this where it could identify signs and things, but the quality from what I recall was not great (could be way off and have many duplicates). I might be remembering Mapillary, which has a Map data button at the top left and seems to show signs [0]. I don't think it auto-updates OSM based on these data.

[0] https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=52.4758193487485&lng=-1.8...

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by stevage »

Groxx wrote: post #52

One of the main things that keeps me from using essentially all OSM-based mapping apps as my primary is that search seems incredibly bad. I can't blend city and name, road and category, can't usually filter by features or open time, and results are almost always something like: - a result 500 feet away that sounds nothing like what you searched for - a result 23 miles away that shares one word but nothing else - a re…

True, although I do also have a lot of problems with Google Maps. Particularly, when I search for a small town 100km away, and instead it brings up a medium sized down in the USA. Or even more ridiculous cases, like I slightly got the name of a business wrong, so it went with a different business in the USA.

Yeah, it really loves to suggest US options.

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Post by drnick1 »

maelito wrote: post #30
mcv wrote: post #15

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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 en…

It's not like Google reviews can be trusted.

Re: CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

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Post by ponkipo »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #37
TheLNL wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comaps and organic maps are very similar (they forked very recently). The only difference I can think of from the top of my mind is that organic maps is not fully open source (map files and generator are proprietary) and has some kayak sponsored suggestions/reviews

> organic maps is not fully open source Organic Maps is a for-profit venture that accepts donations. That's sketchy. Management also seems to have prior Kremlin links. Which is sketchy.

> Organic Maps is a for-profit venture that accepts donations. That's sketchy.

I don’t understand why it is “sketchy”. Also do you have any proof on “Kremlin links”?

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