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For hiking, check out https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka. While it focuses on central Europe, it regularly imports OSM data worldwide a
by tmoravec 6y ago
For hiking, check out https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka. While it focuses on central Europe, it regularly imports OSM data worldwide and I found the coverage pretty good.
- MrMid 6y agoThey also have a mobile app with downloadable maps. Look for Mapy.cz. I used it throughout whole Europe, and found it superior to even local apps (map content) and OSMAnd (map rendering).
- BoumTAC 6y agocan you contribute to OSM like with maps.me ?
- andrewshadura 6y agoAFAIK to a degree.
- matkoniecz 6y agoSadly, no. Though there are some other ways to do this (OSM Go!, StreetComplete, Vespucci)
- pwg 6y agoOSMAnd allows some limited amount of contributing to OSM. But it is not a replacement for Vespucci (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vespucci https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vespucci).
- Rokky26 6y agoThere is no better app like maps.me with there usability for me
- Fitch89 6y agoI also used it,and I liked it.
- nekopa 6y agoI can second this recommendation. Mapy.cz is especially awesome for me as I live in the Czech Republic. It has more updated satellite imagery for the CZ than Google, and shows all the hiking trails quite nicely. And the download function works pretty painlessly.
- Toutouxc 6y agoWords can't describe how much I love Mapy.cz (a Czech person here). I wonder if there are other high-profile cases of a national map provider successfully competing with Google or Apple maps.
- mgraupner 6y agoAs a non-Czech but close to the border living German I can also recommend this app, my current favourite on iOS. Ahoj!
- RivieraKid 6y agoI've always wondered, why is there such a massive difference in popularity of this app in and outside of Czechia? Do you think it's mainly - lack of focus on non-Czech user experience (poor translations, map layer looking worse, ...), lack of marketing, something else?
- mgraupner 6y agoI guess it's a combination, the lack of marketing for sure. Perhaps it's also the algorithms fault, if only a few people (considered from a worldwide view) download it, it's not shown to others looking for map apps (it's a very crowded space app wise). Czechs are very outdoorsy people, they recommend this app to each other and so it's very popular there, but unfortunately the language barrier makes it harder spreading over borders. But these are all just wild guesses, who knows? Most people here in Germany use Komoot which gives away their maps for free on a regular basis, perhaps that's better marketing than "everything is free already"... :)
- The_Colonel 6y ago1. Mapy.cz is not marketed outside of Czechoslovakia. 2. It has its own (high quality) map data only for Czechoslovakia, outside it uses "just" OSM, although you'll get arguably superior rendering there.
- andrewshadura 6y agoCzechoslovakia is not a country and hasn’t been for 28 years. Mapy.cz uses OSM data worldwide except Czechia, where they have their own dataset.
- mcjiggerlog 6y agoThe international version of this is Windy Maps - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.windymaps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind.... I highly recommend it - excellent for outdoors / hiking, tracking route etc. Also has a very polished UI.
- tartoran 6y agoGreat tip, thanks. This is also available for IOS and am planning to use it soon.
- Wormsstill 6y agoI'm also going to start using this app
- pax 6y agowith the downside of them being different services, thus you can't have the same account (saved places / routes) on both the web version and the mobile app. Am I wrong?
- Liskni_si 6y agoYou can if you use the "mapy.cz" version of the mobile app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.mapy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.mapy I have no idea what the point of the "international" version is, as this one has English translation as well.
- abrowne 6y agoThat's surprisingly good in Minneapolis, presumably all from the OSM data. Even does good bike directions.
- brnt 6y agoCan't find it on F-droid, perhaps under a different name?
- ce4 6y agoMaps (Offline OpenStreetMap maps) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.maps https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.maps Source is hosted here: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/tree/HEAD https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/tree/HEAD
- brnt 6y agoThanks, but thats maps.me, not mapy.cz, right?
- andrewshadura 6y agoMapy.cz is not free software.
- paultnylund 6y agoNorway-specific, but https://norgeskart.no/ https://norgeskart.no/ is insanely detailed for hiking, skiing, etc.
- skaterr 6y agomy friend was in Oslo. And he used only maps.me because the app is really reliable for a lot functions everywhere
- ximeng 6y agoThe iOS app looks great. Thanks for the tip. It even has 3D visualisations of topography with satellite imagery. Had tried to find similar apps for hiking recently and ended up with free versions of paid apps that were deliberately crippled, this looks perfect for what I need. Shame it’s not easier to find in App Store. It even has a feature to find a trail looping a fixed distance from a point - I haven’t seen this on other apps and it’s really fast.
- laundrao 6y agoIt's a questions to our habbits but i'd like maps.me