The Organic Maps shareholders closed parts of the code, added Kayak advertising and there is a risk that they will sell the project for their own profit.

F-Droid takes a bit longer to release.

Great that you are trying it out, and thank you for your work on OSM!

No, since CoMaps does not track data, we don’t have map info. This is from App Store and Google Play Store, they offer basic stats.

The Organic Maps project was described as community-driven, but shareholders were making a number of decisions without the community's input, and even without the community being aware that decisions are being made. While the use of donations is concerning, it wasn't the main problem. When people contribute their time and money to the project so that it can be for the entire community, but it turns out the shareholders are open to selling the contributors' work for their own profit - that becomes problematic. After Maps.me was sold, it added paid subscriptions and a crypto wallet, which destroyed the entire experience. And it appears Organic Maps risks the same problem.

Yes, the feature is to link to the photos.

You can also contribute within CoMaps

Today the routing algorythm is quite basic and does not contain penalties for road features like traffic lights, stop signs or turns, that is why the travel time estimates is always unrealistically low, and this can create routes which may not be the most optimal. A contributor is starting work to add penalties:

https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/817

If you would like to help out, would be great to have you!

Maybe it’s happening every time the app loses the privilege, it’s possible that selecting Ask Me Every Time causes it to gain and then lose the privilege and resets the popup. Try unchecking it. For further assistance we can help at [email protected]

The 3rd choice could potentially work. It doesn't sound unique, but it does carry the message of openness and similarity to OpenStreetMap.

There was discussion about this, it's a good conversation to have. The path for CoMaps is that it will be a general purpose navigation app, that can replace apps like Google Maps, and is good for several scenarios. Although there is still work to do until it gets there, for example estimate route time estimates. The idea is that while we work on making this app for general purpose, the focus is on narrower use cases like hiking, where people often need to be offline. And as the experience improves, the focus will also change.

CoMaps is moving quickly, it appears much faster than Organic Maps did, so I'm really excited about what we will accomplish! Thank you to everyone's support and contribution!

While portraying Organic Maps as a community-driven project, shareholders were making decisions behind closed doors - a Kayak ad affiliate link was added, parts of the open-source code was hidden, and shareholders are leaving the door open for selling the company and pocketing profit from contributor work (this would likely go the unfortunate route of Maps.Me).

This scenario you describe was common because the algorithm previously didn’t consider time for road features like turns, traffic lights, stop signs, etc, so it sometimes made choices for the route that saved seconds, but seemed puzzling. In the latest release of the app, the algorithm was updated to consider road features, which makes the route more optimized and should have much less unusual route choices. Plus, the route time estimation is realistic now. Some tuning of the algorithm may still be needed as this is new, but overall you should see improved routes.

Great question, we do have plans to create it! Since we have not yet incorporated as a non-profit, there are extra steps to set this up, and we're working on it right now. Thank you for your support, we appreciate you very much!

Voting for names is now open:

https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/34

Great to hear that resolved it!

No, there is no app traffic info.

This is a great idea! Would you be able to create an issue here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues

This could improve search for many points of interests.

There is quite a bit of work to be done with search to improve it. Right now data is not pulled from Wikidata, so this additional source would need to be added.

If there is anyone who is familiar with developing search and/or C++ and interested in contributing to CoMaps, this would be a great project!

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It only works with Android Auto from the Play Store, it's a Google requirement. It's possible that GrapheneOS may have services turned off which are needed for it. We can help at [email protected]