- Their repository description:
> The main code repository of CoMaps, a community-led fork of Organic Maps. Reinforced with commitment to transparency, privacy and being not-for-profit.
- Coming from OsmAnd, I'm always impressed by the performance of the maps.me forks, but I find their feature set rather limiting. The route planning in particular seems rather naïve, at least from what I can tell when planning routes I know well. This would send me straight into traffic light-laden roads (that, on paper, if I were the only driver, would be the shortest distance).
That said, if you're just looking for a simple maps app, I suppose OsmAnd could be quite overwhelming and this would probably be a lot better.
I never really got what the Organic Maps drama was about, but as long as the two can peacefully coexist I hope they'll work together to make their apps as good as they can be.
- I'm looking forward to seeing this succeed.
A question: given that common pattern of forks of this codebase over time which seem to have a common theme of confused/transferred/disputed ownership, are there plans for an actual neutral foundation (or joining an existing one) or some governance which will guarantee that this avoids those problems?
From the outside it's getting embarrassing constantly telling my friends and family "actually you need to install this new fork instead" for the fourth time. I've seen norming in the wild with maps.me or MapsWithMe installed on their phones in the past, and I can't believe that they're following along the journey and we really can't go though this again.
- People asking if there's differences to Organic Maps, yes there are
E.g., on iOS CoMaps has fixed several bugs present in OM like:
* CarPlay Interface not resetting upon arrival at destination
* Search Results still highlighted after route creation
* Button overlaying during routing on small iPhone
I have improved the consistency of paths and footway rendering
- Does it play well with Android Auto? My OSM app doesn't display on the car screen unless I keep the app open and make sure the phone screen doesn't go dark. It's nice when it works, but its harder than it should be to get it going.
by spacemule
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- The biggest thing keeping me from using any open source routing or even Google Maps is that here in Israel there are roads that are illegal to drive on either because they're access to PA territory or they're bus/taxi only. No application other than Waze avoids these, so I'm stuck using Waze. I just checked this, and to get to a building down the street from me, it wants me to YOLO myself through the bus lanes.
- Hopefully they will fix my biggest pet peeve with Organic Maps - jerky navigation movement (to the point of it being actively distracting and problematic in a car).
It happens because they don't apply any movement filters/momentum to the navigation, which means that the navigation marker jerks from one GPS update to the other and is constantly behind the actual location of the vehicle. Which makes it extremely easy to miss a turn.
The authors of Organic keep rejecting implementation of a filter/momentum (just like any other nav app) with "it's less accurate"... which is kind of ridiculous if you think about it.
- Oh, finally the iOS build. Ok. If this lifts off well I'll start donating.
- https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/src/branch/main "also usable on Linux phones" f... yeah!
- I was lamenting the other day how stagnant the whole navigation app space has become. It seemed like Waze was the last innovative one, and that was quenched after they were acquired by Google. It’s nice to see a new entrant in the category.
by worldsavior
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- Is there any difference from Organic Maps? What's up with the forks?
- I haven't followed whats going on with Organic Maps but I continue to use it and have donated to it in the past. Why the fork?
- What does this Organic Maps fork bring new to us?
by gedankenstuecke
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- Launched for iOS and Android today
by theyknowitsxmas
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- site doesn't doesn't even properly render in safari
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