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Coming from OsmAnd, I'm always impressed by the performance of the maps.me forks, but I find their feature set rather limiting. The route planning in particular

Coming from OsmAnd, I'm always impressed by the performance of the maps.me forks, but I find their feature set rather limiting. The route planning in particular seems rather naïve, at least from what I can tell when planning routes I know well. This would send me straight into traffic light-laden roads (that, on paper, if I were the only driver, would be the shortest distance). That said, if you're just looking for a simple maps app, I suppose OsmAnd could be quite overwhelming and this would probably be a lot better. I never really got what the Organic Maps drama was about, but as long as the two can peacefully coexist I hope they'll work together to make their apps as good as they can be.

Mashimo 1y ago
Are there any sources that open source apps can use to get traffic information?
- jeroenhd 1y ago
  There are government databases and various public-private partnerships, but the most common method of traffic information is by collecting users' information while driving. There are companies that resell access to that data too: https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data OpenStreetMap doesn't even seem interested in things like "this street is closed next week Tuesday", but maybe there's another open project that collects this information for maps apps. I don't know any, though.
  - habi 1y ago
    > OpenStreetMap doesn't even seem interested in things like "this street is closed next week Tuesday" OpenStreetMap data consumers can have much longer update cycles than "next week", so it makes sense to have such information outside of the map data if you are implementing a router.
mnmalst 1y ago
I feel the same. I just installed it and there are almost no features besides the map of course. I am super happy with osmand.
gedankenstuecke 1y ago
> That said, if you're just looking for a simple maps app, I suppose OsmAnd could be quite overwhelming and this would probably be a lot better. That's the main draw of CoMaps to me. I also have OsmAnd installed and it's useful for more complex uses, but for a quick lookup CoMaps works a lot better for me. OsmAnd is more the swiss army knife of navigation tools, with all the complexity that means.
- andrepd 1y ago
  Organic maps is my go to for those reasons.

Mashimo 1y ago

Are there any sources that open source apps can use to get traffic information?

jeroenhd 1y ago
There are government databases and various public-private partnerships, but the most common method of traffic information is by collecting users' information while driving. There are companies that resell access to that data too: https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data OpenStreetMap doesn't even seem interested in things like "this street is closed next week Tuesday", but maybe there's another open project that collects this information for maps apps. I don't know any, though.
- habi 1y ago
  > OpenStreetMap doesn't even seem interested in things like "this street is closed next week Tuesday" OpenStreetMap data consumers can have much longer update cycles than "next week", so it makes sense to have such information outside of the map data if you are implementing a router.

mnmalst 1y ago

I feel the same. I just installed it and there are almost no features besides the map of course. I am super happy with osmand.

gedankenstuecke 1y ago

> That said, if you're just looking for a simple maps app, I suppose OsmAnd could be quite overwhelming and this would probably be a lot better. That's the main draw of CoMaps to me. I also have OsmAnd installed and it's useful for more complex uses, but for a quick lookup CoMaps works a lot better for me. OsmAnd is more the swiss army knife of navigation tools, with all the complexity that means.

andrepd 1y ago
Organic maps is my go to for those reasons.