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Organic Maps

We are looking for volunteers to help us in different areas. A lot of interesting and challenging work πŸ’ͺ awaits on the open-source, community-built road to the best, fastest πŸš€, easy-to-use πŸ‘΄πŸ‘΅πŸ§’, and privacy-focused maps.

If we get enough money, we can significantly speed up the development by hiring a full-time team and rewarding the most active contributors. If we get more users, we get more donations. Donate and spread the word πŸ’Έ!

Let's call it Organic Crowdfunding πŸ’°
organicmaps.app/news/2023-09-3

Ruler (Helicopter Routing)
Ruler (Helicopter Routing)
30 Sep 2023 at 23:33 | Open on fosstodon.org
26 comments
Madelena Mak

@organicmaps Always interested in a good map app!

1 Oct 2023 at 0:10 | Open on mastodon.online
skome

@organicmaps How is this different from Open Street Maps volunteering? Sincere question from an OSM volunteer

1 Oct 2023 at 1:45 | Open on fosstodon.org
Organic Maps

@skome one of our goals is to teach users about OpenStreetMap.org, another goal is to improve OpenStreetMap via a better editor. We rely on OSM, we are grateful to every mapper, and want to contribute back better, when we get enough resources for that.

1 Oct 2023 at 5:09 | Open on fosstodon.org
Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:

@organicmaps What are your plans about the better editor? You want to have an editor _within_ Organic Maps?

Maybe you can reuse the MapComplete-questions there

1 Oct 2023 at 11:09 | Open on en.osm.town
Organic Maps

@pietervdvn we already have the Editor in Organic Maps. Did you try it? Plans are to focus on the easy UX and engage as many non-geeks as possible to contribute data. When we’ll get enough funding, we can even work on something more ambitious like helping to detect and add road signs, street names and house numbers, and some other cool things that big tech companies are doing now but for different reasons they don’t contribute everything back to OpenStreetMap.org.

1 Oct 2023 at 11:30 | Open on fosstodon.org
Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:

@organicmaps Yeah, well, as main dev of MapComplete I already focus a lot on the 'non-geek'-segment which is interested into contributing. Will you be on SOTM-EU? We should have a talk

1 Oct 2023 at 11:42 | Open on en.osm.town
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SchwarzeLocke

@organicmaps looking forward to the ruler! I often start a route with a few rough points, to see how long it and an alternative would be. Especially when I'm placing many points or a very long distance, the recalculations between adding each pin are unnecessary, so this will speed it up :blobcataww:

1 Oct 2023 at 6:02 | Open on ohai.social
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Robert Lender

@organicmaps I donated some money right away. Organic Maps has helped me so often. Whether it's a walking route in the forest or a path through a small Greek village.
Together with OpenStreetmap, it's a wonderful duo 😊

1 Oct 2023 at 8:16 | Open on microblog.at
Organic Maps

@roblen thank you, Robert! Every donation motivates us to improve OM and OpenStreetMap.org !

1 Oct 2023 at 11:36 | Open on fosstodon.org
Martin Be

@organicmaps I will gladly switch to the Organic Maps if they have few features I use daily.
1. On the bus stops/train stations there's no drive plan displayed.
2. There's no (or I just can't find it) option to easily import my data like points, favorites, etc from the g-maps.
3. Night mode is an unusable nightmare! I can't see anything at all when this option is turned on, on my amoled. I like and mostly use dark themes, modes because of my eyes, but this particular one is totally messed up.

1 Oct 2023 at 9:03 | Open on mastodon.social
Organic Maps

@MartinBe 1. Public transport is planned. It’s a big effort that requires a lot of resources and online services too. With your donations we can do that!
2. There are several instructions in the internet how to export your data from Google Maps and convert it to KML to import into Organic Maps. 3. Dark mode was done for drivers at night, not for the daylight dark theme lovers. We plan to add a separate map style for the daylight. You can help to develop it ;-)

1 Oct 2023 at 11:34 | Open on fosstodon.org
Martin Be

@organicmaps

Ad2. Okay, I haven't seen this anywhere. Thnx for the info.

Ad3. Even in the total darkness I can barely see anything on the screen. Black or dark-grey letters on the very dark backgrounds is a not an particularly wise or cool design idea. Even an amoled 6"+ screen size and full display brightness does not helps. The dark/night mode is still a piece of usability junk. Sorry, but it is as it is. Perhaps a bit different color palette would be a way better choice? Seems so.

1 Oct 2023 at 12:34 | Open on mastodon.social
Organic Maps

@MartinBe please propose better colors, we’re open to any help. There are several related issues on our Github.

1 Oct 2023 at 13:42 | Open on fosstodon.org
2Β’

@organicmaps those must be impressive helicopters

1 Oct 2023 at 10:55 | Open on unbound.social
Miron
Organic Maps

@hmiron Thank you very much for your support!

1 Oct 2023 at 11:30 | Open on fosstodon.org
Semmelstulle

@organicmaps I’m only familiar with Swift and SwiftUI, but I really like contributing updates to map data in my rural area.
It’s where I live but also where I find map data too be the most lacking, so I’ll happily help improve things for everyone.

1 Oct 2023 at 11:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Organic Maps

@Semmelstulle cool! We have some swift issues to fix too :)

1 Oct 2023 at 11:27 | Open on fosstodon.org
Christian Meyer

@organicmaps your project is amazing. πŸ‘
Till now I've been using OSM via OSMAnd~.
Can you please give me a hint, why I should change over to Organic Maps?

1 Oct 2023 at 11:57 | Open on digitalcourage.social
Organic Maps

@chbmeyer try it, users say that OM is simpler to use and faster.

1 Oct 2023 at 13:46 | Open on fosstodon.org
Islamic Audiobooks Central

@organicmaps We love Organic Maps, especially the feature to add/edit #OpenStreetMap right in the app :)

What are your thoughts/plans towards integrating crowdsourced live traffic data in a #privacy-respecting way with user consent?
#alternatives #googlemaps #waze #applemaps

6 Oct 2023 at 4:35 | Open on mastodon.social
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