Thanks for posting it. Nice alternative to GMaps
I’ve been using Organic Maps for about six months now and I would say it is my go to for 80% of my trips. It’s pretty solid, but it definitely has limitations. One major thing you have to get use to is it doesn’t track traffic patterns at all, so you’re not always going to get the best routes and your trip estimates are generally off by a fair bit. I keep Apple Maps as my back up since I trust them slightly more than Google.
I use this for everything except driving. Organic Maps also makes it easy to add new new points to openstreetmaps :)
For driving I use Magic Earth. Not open source but their privacy policy states they don’t sell your data or store PII.
I tried using Magic Earth and especially the driving mode is great and sometimes it worked flawlessly but I regularly had freezes and crashes. Do you have any issues with it?
No unfortunately I haven’t had crashes during my 2 years of using it, running on LineageOS with and without microg.
Seems like Organic Maps aren’t saints either.
Apparently the recent lack of updates on F-Droid is due to them including referral links for hotels and refusing to remove it or make it an opt-out feature…
Here’s a relevant issue if anyone’s interested: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/7218
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Looking at the discussions it’s even worse, the devs try to argue that F-Droid is being unfair and referral links shouldn’t be “misclassified” as ads…
Organic maps is just damn great, the default any time I need to use map for routes or just whatever on phone
Also osm (and Organic maps using osm) has so much better coverage for smaller trails and forest roads than gmaps it’s crazy
I like Organic Maps, but I am sometimes really surprised at the locations that are not on it that have been around in my city for several years. And I don’t live in a particularly small/unknown place. The routes can also be a little questionable at times, but I would say it works pretty well 90% of the time for me. Since I have small kids, I don’t depend on it if I’m at all questioning its ability to navigate me. But when I’m driving by myself I pretty much use it exclusively.
It’s not Organic Maps’ fault, but that users haven’t added those places to https://www.openstreetmap.org
Be the change you want to see, it’s easy to add either through OM or the OSM website.
Has anyone also used maps me as a comparison?
That’s what I usually use, I haven’t heard of organic maps until recently.
“They’re the same picture”
Organic maps is a continuation of the old Maps.me as far as I understand.
My quibble with it is the way that parks and such aren’t properly delineated. And they disappear depending on your zoom level
