Nice to see, how the score comes together.
Just like organicmaps, it’s great for offline hiking trail maps. Search is terrible compared to gmaps though, unfortunately, which is understandable. Good, context-sensitive search is hard, and Google has decades of experience in refining (and ruining) it. But whenever I’m in doubt about mobile data coverage I reach for
organicmapscomapsThere was some controversy about Organicmaps and Comaps ended up as fork afterwards.
So better to use Comaps.
Oh, I had no idea. Thanks. I’ll look into it. I use OM.
can you give a tldr of the contorversy, i havent heard of it until now
The shareholders basically tried to enshittify it
Basically concerns from contributors about the governance structure of the project and how their drive for profit may impact it. And how this FOSS project with significant community contributions has it’s shareholders (yes it has shareholders) considering it their sole property.
There’s a little on Wikipedia here.
And an open letter: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c
I switched from gmaps (ugh, google) to magic earth (bit clunky) to osmand+ (super customisable but that also quickly overloads daily use) to CoMaps and am very happy with this app. It’s easy to use, looks nice and still gives me the options to easily upload changes to OSM.
Thanks for this summery. I’ll try the app. An easy way to add something to OSM “on the go” is appreciated.
I use it am really happy with it, it can’t compete with Google Maps on all areas (planning a trip that requires multiple kinds of public transport is big one for me), but it’s good enough als daily driver, can definitely recommend to anyone wanting to exit big tech.
