Organic Maps Turns 4: The Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Maps
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Organic Maps, the privacy-focused, open-source alternative to Google Maps, celebrates its 4th anniversary. The project came to life during Christmas week of 202…
  • SeekPie@lemm.ee
    32·
    6 days ago

    Organic Maps is great. Recently learned about Geo Share, which makes my job doing deliveries possible with Organic Maps. It basically redirects gMaps links to Organic Maps (even from food delivery apps).

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        6 days ago

        the whole thing about it using OSM data is that you can just fix that, spend a week surveying and you have the most high-detail navigation available.

  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    $0 spend on marketing - pure Organic growth

    They cooked, also interested in learning about the story with the party comment at the end about regretting inviting maps.me team without background check. What happened?

  • HereIAm@lemmy.world
    20·
    6 days ago

    Organic maps is probably my favourite osm app for general use. I still have OsmAnd for various purposes, and I use Magic Earth when driving for the included traffic calculations. I hope that Organic Maps can generate some traffic data in the future. Though, I imagine for it to work well, some sort of open sharing of traffic data would need to happen to avoid fragmentation between apps.

  • TheCreativeName@lemmy.ml
    17·
    6 days ago

    If only it had support for public transport. In theory it would be my favorite OSM app but I can’t really use it without support for that :(

  • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
    12·
    6 days ago

    If you’re going to somewhere that the address has already been added into Open Street maps, it’s amazing.

  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
    15·
    6 days ago

    This is great! Google seems to be slowly murdering Waze which I loved. Hoping that this will replace it!

    Thank-you all.

  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    I’ve been looking for something like this! So far I had an open street map bookmark but this is way better for when I’m hiking. Other commercial maps sucks for hikes.

    • thax@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      6 days ago

      It’s great for trails in America. I’ve used it for years. Offline maps by default and you can easily drop a pin. FYI, in the android build, you drop a pin with a triple touch. It used to be long touch.

  • No1@aussie.zone
    82·
    6 days ago

    Been using Magic Earth with Android Auto, and it’s been working great. I prefer it over Organic Maps. While I prefer Organic’s privacy focus, it was laggy on my phone and search also was more fussy and difficult to find things.

    I love offline maps. I only have data enabled when I want internet access.

    Magic Earth can do directions for walking without data enabled. Google Maps with an offline map still requires data to generate a route for walking.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    72·
    6 days ago

    Honestly guys. I’ve used organic maps and osmand. Don’t like both. For my roadtrip I plan on using Waze or something. For some reason it’s so slow and buggy on my device, osmand crashes everytime and organic maps doesn’t have enough data of all the small places on the roadtrip.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.world
      13·
      5 days ago

      There is unfortunately only one way for smaller businesses (or any for that matter) to show up, and that is people contributing to osm itself.

      Edit: a word.

      • krash@lemmy.ml
        10·
        6 days ago

        Its not about contributing to the map data. There’s quite few quality issues with organic maps, from small things in the UI to how it calculates the navigation from A to B. I want to like organic maps, but its still far from usable for me. I do however regularly contribute to OSM - mainly thanks to streetcomplete.

  • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml
    51·
    6 days ago

    I do like Organic maps, but it doesn’t have live bus timings and multi-bus route calculation like google does, so I still occasionally have to use that instead.

    Fortunately I’m on GOS, and can atleast restrict gmaps from seeing my GPS location, but they’re still able to guess where I am and where im going and build data points to sell or hand over to cops based on which bus routes I look at.

      • Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml
        21·
        6 days ago

        The app looks nice, but most of its features are locked behind a subscription, and still just uses google maps as its base.

        • j4p@lemm.ee
          2·
          6 days ago

          I found that citymapper is a great stand-in for transit. Great with bike and public transit info, plus ads can be blocked with DNS so you get full functionality! Basically dropped transit once I started using it

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        It’s especially good for the Czech Republic, the rest is just an OSM reskin (still good though). If you stop updating at 9.55.2 (9550200), you will still get the premium feature (multi-country offline maps) for free and without downsides, AFAIK. However, they have stopped server support for old versions before and it’s pretty much impossible to unofficially import the map data without root.