Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce the release of CoMaps to Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and F-Droid!

CoMaps Highlights

· Offline Search and Route: Plan and navigate your trips without internet

· Saves battery: Efficient design that does not drain your battery

· Privacy-respecting: no identify people, no tracking, no data collection

· Free and No Ads: completely free, your journey is smooth

What makes CoMaps special?

CoMaps is a community-driven open-source navigation app · Open & Transparent: All decisions are made in public, with full transparency.

· Community Empowerment: You have a voice in how the app evolves.

· Free & Not-for-Profit: Our focus is on creating value for the community, not generating profit.

Download CoMaps Today

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      For me its much simpler to use and more straight forward. That being said, I feel like osmand allows you to be much more precise when selecting a route. But I havnt really used osmand that much

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    What is or will be different to organic maps, besides the governing? I have organic maps on my phone and I do not see a reason to switch for now.

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    18 hours ago

    Do we think traffic data will ever be available for a project like this one? Or maybe it already is and I just don’t know.

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      18 hours ago

      Traffic data kind of requires driver tracking data to be sent to the cloud, which usually goes against the philosophy of projects like this. Unless they’re obtaining it from a third party, I doubt it’ll be a feature they implement.

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    Has there been any progress on the actual map data? Last time I tried Organic Maps the places I wanted to go didn’t come up in search, and when I planned a road trip with it it planned the trip hours longer than Google maps.

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      That sounds like an issue with the underlying OpenStreetMap data that is used by Organic Maps (and CoMaps, and OsmAnd, and others). Map quality depends on where you are in the world and who is contributing to the maps there. If data is incomplete around you, you could contribute to it (but easier said than done, I know).

      I can’t say why the route would be hours longer than Google maps, but I’ve noticed OsmAnd~ tends to overestimate drive time for me (I think it overestimates delay from traffic lights). Or it could just be that calculating routes on your phone doesn’t always give results as good as calculating routes on Google’s servers.

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        God forbid you make a wrong turn with OSMAnd, the recalculating time is atrocious, and it’s not unlikely that you’re unable to stop, so it recalculates based on where you were, or in such a way to where you can’t follow it’s new guidance.

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    22 hours ago

    Nice and simple. But in public transport it says “U-Bahn (metro) not yet available in this region” (Zurich). Guess that’s future content.

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    19 hours ago

    Will AndroidAuto work if installed from F-Droid or will I need to install the version from Google Play like Organic Maps?

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      It didnt for me. I installed Comaps from fdroid the other day, and it didnt come up on androidauto. I guess I could try installing it from the app store and see.

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        There’s a setting hidden in Android Auto that let’s you pick what apps to show. I think it’s within the app’s developer settings.

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    Thank you, it seems really nice.

    Edit: I’m on a camping trip and I was mad because the app wasn’t able to find my next stop. Turns out that I downloaded the wrong map because I suck at local geography.