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Organic Maps Turns 4: The Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Maps

7 points by rtsisyk 2y ago

rtsisyk 2y ago
What have we achieved so far as we approach Christmas 2024: - ~3M¹ users from all countries of the world - ~15k ratings and reviews on AppStore and Google Play - 4.8/4.6 average rating on AppStore/Google Play - 10k+ stars on GitHub - 10k (almost) issues + PRs on GitHub - 1k (almost) forks on GitHub - 7k+ git commits - ~100 awesome contributors who made 5+ commits - $0 spend on marketing - pure Organic growth (fixed formatting)
- sunshine-o 2y ago
  Interesting, I will try ! What would you say are the fundamental differences between Organic Maps and OsmAnd?
  - contrapunctus 2y ago
    Pros of Organic Maps compared to OsmAnd - * Rendering and routing are faster (especially noticeable on older devices) * Renders 3D buildings * Far smpler UI, so it's hard for tech-illiterate users to get stuck * Changes made with the Organic Maps editor become visible in your Organic Maps immediately. In OsmAnd, your edits vanish upon upload, and only appear once there is a map update - this can be as early as in one hour (using OsmAnd Live), or as late as one month. * Organic Maps is less buggy. Cons of Organic Maps compared to OsmAnd - * OsmAnd has far more features, like bus or share taxi routing, aerial imagery, 3D relief, analysis of GPS tracks, radius ruler, etc * OsmAnd can render a lot more data like street surface, smoothness, access restrictions, lighting, features with FIXME tags, OSM notes, etc. * Organic Maps only updates data once a month. OsmAnd updates data monthly too, but also has the OsmAnd Live feature to update data every hour. * OsmAnd's editor supports adding arbitrary keys, whereas Organic Maps' does not.
palata 2y ago
It's not clear to me in the article: which version of MAPS.ME was forked? The latest version 1 from end of 2020? Also, I didn't know MAPS.ME had been open source since 2015!
- rtsisyk 2y ago
  https://github.com/mapsme/omim/ https://github.com/mapsme/omim/ was forked in December 2020, with all new changes up to the last commit of Apr 28, 2021 merged into https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/ https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/ later. MAPS.ME is alive, but they publish the source code anymore since that.
maelito 2y ago
Congratulations ! If you are a french speaker and looking for a Web equivalent, check out https://cartes.app https://cartes.app. Source code at github.com/cartesapp

7 points by rtsisyk 2y ago

What have we achieved so far as we approach Christmas 2024: - ~3M¹ users from all countries of the world - ~15k ratings and reviews on AppStore and Google Play - 4.8/4.6 average rating on AppStore/Google Play - 10k+ stars on GitHub - 10k (almost) issues + PRs on GitHub - 1k (almost) forks on GitHub - 7k+ git commits - ~100 awesome contributors who made 5+ commits - $0 spend on marketing - pure Organic growth (fixed formatting)

sunshine-o 2y ago
Interesting, I will try ! What would you say are the fundamental differences between Organic Maps and OsmAnd?
- contrapunctus 2y ago
  Pros of Organic Maps compared to OsmAnd - * Rendering and routing are faster (especially noticeable on older devices) * Renders 3D buildings * Far smpler UI, so it's hard for tech-illiterate users to get stuck * Changes made with the Organic Maps editor become visible in your Organic Maps immediately. In OsmAnd, your edits vanish upon upload, and only appear once there is a map update - this can be as early as in one hour (using OsmAnd Live), or as late as one month. * Organic Maps is less buggy. Cons of Organic Maps compared to OsmAnd - * OsmAnd has far more features, like bus or share taxi routing, aerial imagery, 3D relief, analysis of GPS tracks, radius ruler, etc * OsmAnd can render a lot more data like street surface, smoothness, access restrictions, lighting, features with FIXME tags, OSM notes, etc. * Organic Maps only updates data once a month. OsmAnd updates data monthly too, but also has the OsmAnd Live feature to update data every hour. * OsmAnd's editor supports adding arbitrary keys, whereas Organic Maps' does not.

palata 2y ago

It's not clear to me in the article: which version of MAPS.ME was forked? The latest version 1 from end of 2020? Also, I didn't know MAPS.ME had been open source since 2015!

rtsisyk 2y ago
https://github.com/mapsme/omim/ https://github.com/mapsme/omim/ was forked in December 2020, with all new changes up to the last commit of Apr 28, 2021 merged into https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/ https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/ later. MAPS.ME is alive, but they publish the source code anymore since that.

maelito 2y ago

Congratulations ! If you are a french speaker and looking for a Web equivalent, check out https://cartes.app https://cartes.app. Source code at github.com/cartesapp