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I Was Wrong About CoMaps.. - BlinMaster
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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CoMaps
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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.
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I had this exact comment chain with someone here. They were just hardcore confused and said it was missing all these features and whatnot until they realized they hadnt downloaded any maps.
That does validate this comment:
https://lemmy.zip/comment/25702290
Seemed like a pretty simple offline first app (contrasted to the usual online first app) to me so I don't really know what could help. I suspect the app needs feedback from those people or people that invested time walking those people through the mental switch
I mean its kind of impossibe to miss when you actually use it. When you try to zoom into any part of the map it wont let you and just shows you this:
And if you try to create any route that involves areas where you dont have the maps downloaded it shows you this:
Which admittadely is a horrible error message but most people would just click download and then it works.