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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela Response (hotosm.org)
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[–] 47 points 1 day ago (1 child)

This is really cool! Amazing for such a new project too. I love reading about all the work they are doing. Also scary that it takes 35 hours to run the map update 😆

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  • [–] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I love comaps, but it’s very much a fork of organic maps and relies on Open street maps. Like it’s sick, I use it as my only map app, but it certainly is continuing work many others helped with, which is the sick thing about open source

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  • [–] 29 points 1 day ago

    Oh for sure, and Organic Maps was a fork too. Open Source is awesome 🙂.

    I reckon whoever that team member was introducing them all to CoMaps is probably familiar with the Fediverse, and may even be watching us now 👀

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  • [–] 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    I wish I could use it over Google Maps but for my use case CoMaps is next to useless. The search function doesnt provide anything close to the right location and I only ever use maps for a quick glance at where I'm going.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    In order to zoom in all the way and search for specific locations, you need to download the map for the region you'll be in because since it's all stored locally on your device it doesn't download the whole world by default, that would be enormous.

    Also the data is crowdsourced so if a spot you need isn't on there, feel free to add it yourself and upload it to OSM

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