It’s great in many ways, and maps are great. You can get Ordnance Survey style maps.
BUT it desperately needs traffic information in its route finding. It frequently makes terrible decisions in the absence of this data.
Love CoMaps, it had shockingly good routing instructions for subway trips in many European cities that I visited, and saving the maps locally let me navigate with ease before I picked up a local sim card. I don’t find it very effective to search by address, but landmark or business name work well. At home I just have my usual destinations bookmarked and it has solid routing instructions, though it doesn’t have live traffic updates because it doesn’t connect to any remote servers.
I tried. I really tried. I just cannot get comaps to cooperate. It cannot find destinations reliably, even when I enter literal addresses. Bookmarked locations are unmanageable and depend on the appp finding the destination in the first place. You can get stuck in some menus with no way to back out, requiring you to force close and start over.
UX is a disaster. I feels like they had GIMP devs work on this interface too.
Since it relies on Openstreetmaps if an address isn’t added it can’t find it. You’ll likely always be able to find the street, but you may need to add the specific number yourself. Then once it’s entered it’s available for everyone.
Interesting, I have not had perfect results with it (certainly a lot of places are not on OSM yet or up to date), but I’ve generally had a good time with this app. Bookmarked locations work perfectly for me, better than google maps, and the lists/folders are really nice for organizing bookmarks. I have never gotten stuck in the menus at all (android here). However I very much agree that the UX could use a serious design overhaul (but its way nicer/quicker and more intuitive to use than OsmAnd!).
Yeah, it is a general problem with OpenStreetMaps-based things I think. You can use something like this to help copy a location into Comaps (or any other OSM app):
https://f-droid.org/packages/page.ooooo.geoshare/
Works relatively well but is not really convenient.
That’s pretty cool. I sometimes use CoMaps to get around, or for seeing some of the stuff I’ve added to Open Street Map.
This is really cool! Amazing for such a new project too. I love reading about all the work they are doing. Also scary that it takes 35 hours to run the map update 😆
I love comaps, but it’s very much a fork of organic maps and relies on Open street maps. Like it’s sick, I use it as my only map app, but it certainly is continuing work many others helped with, which is the sick thing about open source
I wish I could use it over Google Maps but for my use case CoMaps is next to useless. The search function doesnt provide anything close to the right location and I only ever use maps for a quick glance at where I’m going.
Oh for sure, and Organic Maps was a fork too. Open Source is awesome 🙂.
I reckon whoever that team member was introducing them all to CoMaps is probably familiar with the Fediverse, and may even be watching us now 👀
This is like the fifth time I’ve seen CoMaps mentioned on the fedi today and have never seen it before. Something in the water?
It may be due to Apple users looking for alternatives to Apple Maps now that it has ads.
People are making an extra effort to make others aware that CoMaps exist and you don’t need Organic Maps.
And I’m sitting here having never moved from OSMand+…
I use Atlas.
It’s sitting on my table.
Which is great, but it’s not always convenient.
For example, this article
I’m using it in China right now and it is amazingly handly due to the detail of the map data. The metro line information has saved me
This is really nice! I hope the attention improves its popularity
