Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation
organicmaps.app
Fast detailed offline maps for travelers, tourists, drivers, hikers and cyclists created by MapsWithMe (Maps.Me) app founders.
  • NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fiEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    I use this for everything except driving. Organic Maps also makes it easy to add new new points to openstreetmaps :)

    For driving I use Magic Earth. Not open source but their privacy policy states they don’t sell your data or store PII.

    • sanpo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      36·
      1 year ago

      Seems like Organic Maps aren’t saints either.

      Apparently the recent lack of updates on F-Droid is due to them including referral links for hotels and refusing to remove it or make it an opt-out feature…

      Here’s a relevant issue if anyone’s interested: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/7218

      //edit
      Looking at the discussions it’s even worse, the devs try to argue that F-Droid is being unfair and referral links shouldn’t be “misclassified” as ads…

      • verysoft@kbin.social
        20·
        1 year ago

        Yeah they advertise no ads, but then have referral links to Kayak in their app. Seems like the main devs have gone off their rockers.

      • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        While I agree that is not a great look, as long as they aren’t selling my location data and such I don’t really care. I only use it to go from a specific point A to point B, not look things up/find things.

      • raptir@lemdro.idEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        They’re also doing the same thing with Google Play - arguing that collecting user emails for osm login doesn’t count as collecting data.

      • SheeEttin@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        A lot of those people need to get a hobby. Arguing over definitions in someone else’s projects doesn’t count as a hobby.

    • Runwaylights@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I tried using Magic Earth and especially the driving mode is great and sometimes it worked flawlessly but I regularly had freezes and crashes. Do you have any issues with it?

    • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Organic Maps for about six months now and I would say it is my go to for 80% of my trips. It’s pretty solid, but it definitely has limitations. One major thing you have to get use to is it doesn’t track traffic patterns at all, so you’re not always going to get the best routes and your trip estimates are generally off by a fair bit. I keep Apple Maps as my back up since I trust them slightly more than Google.

  • speck@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    My quibble with it is the way that parks and such aren’t properly delineated. And they disappear depending on your zoom level

  • ashtrix@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Organic maps is great. Google maps needs data to open even when you have offline maps stored lol

  • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    If you like Organic Maps.

    Consider installing StreetComplete , it makes it very easy to contribute to OpenStreetMaps!

  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I just wish they would have android auto. It’s been years since it was a summer of code thing and it never gets done.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Has anyone also used maps me as a comparison?

    That’s what I usually use, I haven’t heard of organic maps until recently.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Oh, haha, I’m still using maps me, have they stopped updating? I always manage to keep using an app that I haven’t noticed hasn’t updated in forever.

        Thanks