CoMaps now has more than 7k subscribers across different social media platforms – today reaching 7,777. And the biggest growth is on open-source platforms:
Mastodon - distributed microblogging
Matrix - distributed group messaging
Lemmy - distributed discussion communities
Bluesky - microblogging
Pixelfed - Photos
SimpleX - private messaging
If you have not tried these, check them out!
Happy to see, Google maps I’ve found hard to replace. but it’s a marathon not a sprint
What OSM needs is a widely used service with consumer real time updates. The only thing I’ve been missing is showing closed roads or traffic. But that is all user sourced. Of we get enough people on board we are golden.
ill switch when they have usable public transport. i get its a big effort. but without it its useless to me.
Try Oeffi for public transport, it’s awesome.
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi
ahh unlucky for me. doesn’t work in my region :(
Oh yeah, unlucky :(
There is also transportr and a couple of other apps on fdroid if you search for transport. Maybe you find something for your region.
What I miss the most is satellite view, but I guess that may not be a possibility.
traffic is in dev
There’s so much info you can get via Google Maps:
Busy Times (like for gyms or shopping)
Whats Nearby
Phone/website, etc
Reviews (mixed bag)
Etc
It’s tough. I use OSM as much as possible, but these are all things that I find very useful.
I tried comaps can’t even locate my own house and it search is horrible couldn’t find nothing. Wish them well but its a long way off from being a useful navigator.
That’s not an issue with CoMaps, but with OpenStreetMaps, the open map data source used by Comaps.
You can help fill in the missing info in your area yourself, if you want.
How?
https://streetcomplete.app/
Is very popular. It’s very game-ified so you walk around and answer questions about your neighborhood. As you get used to it you will learn how to add missing information like house numbers, businesses, and such.
The contributing guide is here but for adding simple places I’ve had good luck just doing it from the app. The hamburger menu on the bottom right has a “add place” option, and I found it very intuitive from there personally. Good luck and thanks for being willing to contribute!
Okay thank you and definitely will do that.
Thanks for contributing to open map data!
Small FYI: It may take some days until your contributions are visible in OSM. And then a few more weeks until the next Comaps release after that for them to be visible in Comaps - since Comaps only periodically pulls data from OSM to make optimized custom maps.