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Organic Maps is the best open source Maps App I've ever tried (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's essentially an open source fork of maps.me by the original creators.

I've been using OSMAnd for years, but it always felt laggy and not that reliable. Searching was slow and so on. Many street or things it didn't instantly find.

In the Graphene App Store I jnust discovered Accrescent (another app store thing but only with like 10 apps - they're all gold though, god damn)

An in there I found organic maps. And this shit is google maps level responsive. If you're on the lookout for a google maps replacement - consider trying this.

Byeeee

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (18 children)

For driving I recommend Magic Earth, it's based on OSM data but uses proprietary traffic information as well

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Yeah, you can see that organic maps is sadly not there yet in terms of driving-interface, but hopefully its getting there soon.

Afaik the app is far younger than magic earth and for what it is its super good. I'm so stoked to see how organic maps is gonna develop in the coming years

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I second magic earth for driving. The only reason I haven't entirely removed Google maps from my phone yet is because magic earth doesn't have data on business hours. This is the last killer feature I'm waiting for.

In the meantime I'm routing for any open source map that can do live traffic and business info.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Honestly, I uses organic maps and if its not mapped I just go on the business website. Fuck google, thats why!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Interesting. Do you happen to know where it gets its traffic data from? I haven't yet personally found anything nearly as useful as Waze.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

They collect location of their users but anonimize every data on device, they can't track anyone personally. They also sell their SDK to businesses and collect data from there as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

From reading the Magic Earth FAQ, I believe the user data actually isn't used for traffic at all (at least the manually reported events certainly aren't).

Edit: never mind I missed a later part in the FAQ:

Do you share data with third parties?

We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it's not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Idk ... In their description on f-droid they crossed out "no pesticides" and wrote "purely organic" ... It implies they are using organic pesticides. Not sure if that's something for me tbh.

Edit: screenshot added

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Caffeine and nicotine are legit organic insecticides, that might be a deeper joke about coffee and cigarettes powering development

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Exactly ...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is pretty solid. It lacks some advanced features such as routing around preset areas but that's a minor complaint.

Aldo it is only as good as OSM. Get to work on the map.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Also the search doesn't work, so there is that...

Also using it in android auto is a pain and every action takes between 10x and 100x longer than on the phone.

But yeah it is pretty good and I try to contribute to it when I can. I don't know how to contribute to bad instruction translations though. It just says "verlaat" on an exit in dutch which grammatically makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

You should open an issue

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Shame it doesn't do street numbers (possibly an OSM limitation?). Other than that, solid.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Many street numbers do not exist in OpenStreetMap because no one created them! So if you know about some area with this issue, help edit the map!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

StreetComplete tasks got my neighborhood to be the best-mapped little village I've ever seen! 😎

Since I'm walking around for exercise anyway, I've got most of the addresses, and now I'm working on the fire hydrants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

fidel-salute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Depends what you mean with "doesn't do". I haven't used Organic maps that much yet, but OSMand can handle street numbers. So Organic maps should too.

However it handles them very poorly, you have to type the address in a certain way or it won't recognise the number in it. Sharing from another app works pretty well most of the time though.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Does it know how to navigate NYC public transit? That's a big use case for me. I don't need driving directions. I need to know which subway is closest.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Ok downloaded. Seems very nice!

Still working out how to get directions but all things in good time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Organic Maps is my goto solution for car navigation because it is very quick, responsive and does not require an high end phone. It just works. However for anything more advanced than that (e.g. live location sharing or recording, planning a hiking trip, navigating mountain bike trails, contributing to OpenStreemMap), OSMAnd is still without contender.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Astronomical Clock in Prague is like a fucking wormhole for humans. Last time I was there it felt there was like a thousand people in one small place.

[–] funkless_eck 7 points 4 months ago

my wife forced me to get up really early to look at it without coffee so I wasn't quite as whelmed as I should've been. Prague is lovely though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the share, had no idea. It felt so nice that I already added two contributions to OpenStreetMap.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Does it do navigation with routes based on current traffic conditions? Because that's table stakes to me.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It's also improving really fast. Organic Maps has a great community of developers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yep, the best of the best :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Too bad OSM (and by extension this app) doesn't have public transport directions...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@thegreenguy It doesn't, but if you're lucky, your city might have a transit app itself (mine does). Even if chances are that it's not open source either, you'll still be able to cut your dependency to Google to a certain extent.

@tootnbuns

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Word. That's one of the things where osm gets smashed by this app

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Wow that genuinely looks unbelievable!

It's like an old mall or whatever map except without you are here and movable!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It is nice app but the problem is it doesn't show Czech hiking and cycling routes by default. I didn't figured out how to enable them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's my go to! Also check out the [email protected] community

Edit: sorry, it looks like the more active community is [email protected] but I guess you can join both lol!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

In Berlin it was missing some public transportations like tram

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

After a few days of use - as a cyclist - I only have one note. I'm missing the cycling style option from OSM. That's a real game changer right there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I always felt drawn back to G-Maps until a few months ago when a friend recommended this app. Organic Maps is gorgeous!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It is great. But too bad for me - I live 40km away from the nearest town, in the forest of northern Sweden. So the coverage here is quite not so good. Practically all I see is the main road.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

It's open street map data. If there isn't mapping info for your area, you can fix that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Downloaded because of this post, it is very good!

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