Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce the release of CoMaps to Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and F-Droid!
CoMaps Highlights
· Offline Search and Route: Plan and navigate your trips without internet
· Saves battery: Efficient design that does not drain your battery
· Privacy-respecting: no identify people, no tracking, no data collection
· Free and No Ads: completely free, your journey is smooth
What makes CoMaps special?
CoMaps is a community-driven open-source navigation app · Open & Transparent: All decisions are made in public, with full transparency.
· Community Empowerment: You have a voice in how the app evolves.
· Free & Not-for-Profit: Our focus is on creating value for the community, not generating profit.
Download CoMaps Today
- Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.comaps.google
- Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/comaps/id6747180809
- F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/
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Will this finally include transit?
Awesome! Downloading immediately, but does anyone know why it has such a jarring transition from zooming in out? There’s such a huge change in how much information I can see from just a tiny amount of zooming.
Holy crap, this map is awesome. They have the grills, picnic tables, even all the ski lifts on the ski hill.
Don’t care if the graphics look like they came from the 90s. I love the details
That’s OpenStreetMap data for you - come check out the project if you’d like!
I use Osmand, how does this compare?
Simpler and less features but far lighter.
For me its much simpler to use and more straight forward. That being said, I feel like osmand allows you to be much more precise when selecting a route. But I havnt really used osmand that much
Best there is! I was using OrganicMaps and now CoMaps. Such a good seemingly genuine piece of software.
Has there been any progress on the actual map data? Last time I tried Organic Maps the places I wanted to go didn’t come up in search, and when I planned a road trip with it it planned the trip hours longer than Google maps.
You could use Streetcomplete to fill in the missing data yourself.
This is sick. It makes mobile updates to OSM nice and easy. Thanks for sharing!
I can’t get it to work with Android Auto on GrapheneOS. Any pointers?
From where are you downloading the app? I’ve read that either F-Droid reject Android-Auto because of binary blobs, or Google have some way of blocking non-approved builds (not from the playstore) in the car.
Edit: there is another Android-Auto thread.
Thanks for your replies! I originally downloaded the app from F-droid, but based on yours and others’ advice, I deleted and downloaded through Aurora instead. I also tried the “hidden settings” within Android Auto mentioned in the other thread, but that didn’t work. I’ll know more I suppose when I’m next in my truck.
Nice and simple. But in public transport it says “U-Bahn (metro) not yet available in this region” (Zurich). Guess that’s future content.
Yea, Public Transport is not so good in Comaps, but it’s planned to make it better https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/299
Do we think traffic data will ever be available for a project like this one? Or maybe it already is and I just don’t know.
Traffic data kind of requires driver tracking data to be sent to the cloud, which usually goes against the philosophy of projects like this. Unless they’re obtaining it from a third party, I doubt it’ll be a feature they implement.
OsmAnd seems to do this.
They predict traffic patterns based on random UUID. I don’t know how it works but it seems to be default on.
I think it would be fine if it were opt-in, but then you wouldn’t get enough data to get accurate traffic estimates
What is or will be different to organic maps, besides the governing? I have organic maps on my phone and I do not see a reason to switch for now.
You probably won’t gain much right now, but as the development on Organic Maps has stalled, you might encounter bugs not being fixed, no new features etc. If it stays like that, you’d probably want to switch at some point.
Didn’t organic maps change to comaps ?
Comaps is a fork I think. Organic maps will live on
Linger on*
This looks identical to Organic Maps ?
Ye I installed and it is the same. No mention of it being a fork either
