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…
  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months 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.

  • TheCreativeName@lemmy.ml
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    6 months 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 :(

      • TheCreativeName@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        I don’t think it’s OSM but I use Here we go. I don’t particularly like it but it has public transport support and isn’t Google Maps.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Interesting that the post is showing Prague. I think it’s a nod to the influx of Czech users after our most popular map app, Mapy.cz by Seznam.cz, underwent enshittification to accomodate a premium tier.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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        6 months 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.

  • HereIAm@lemmy.world
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    6 months 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.