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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.
Edit: I’ve switched to the new app. Thanks again!
can you give a tldr of the contorversy, i havent heard of it until now
The shareholders basically tried to enshittify it
https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
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
The community believed their voice weren't being heard by the shareholders, and the lack of a good response by Organic Maps led to a fork of the project being formed. CoMaps was meant to have more transparent governance and take more into account community feedback, and both the name and logo was voted by community members! I also know that iodeOS, a French based private degoogled Android ROM, ships with CoMaps as its default mapping app!
Additionally, CoMaps has already had a few neat extra features over Organic Maps added, like a nicer UI, which is pretty cool. And I think the (community voted) logo design looks nicer than that of Organic Maps, but that's just my opinion.
I much prefer using OpenStreetMap apps like CoMaps since you can download offline versions of the map!
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.
https://streetcomplete.app/
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.
In other areas it is much better than google maps: if you use the "Outdoor" layer in Comaps, you will see all the small paths mapped by openstreetmap enthusiasts. Great for hiking and finding new ways.
Of course OSMand+ is king for planning hiking routes, but also quite complex.
It's crazy how you can install a street map of the entire planet on a phone if you want to.