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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela Response (thelemmy.club)
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CoMaps contributors Anton Wenemoser and Bastian Greshake Tzovaras spoke with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team about how CoMaps was used during the earthquake response in Venezuela: https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response/

Also available in Spanish and French.

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[–] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This prompted me to update my app:) Looking super smooth!

Anyone know how the ‘share maps offline’ feature works?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    I don't know of this feature so I wanted to say that they just copied the map files manually, as opposed to downloading from servers, but it doesn't sound like that:

    Technical improvements had already been made, like the ability to share downloaded maps from a local device

    Anyone only what that's actually referring to?

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