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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela Response
hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response/
I tried. I really tried. I just cannot get comaps to cooperate. It cannot find destinations reliably, even when I enter literal addresses. Bookmarked locations are unmanageable and depend on the appp finding the destination in the first place. You can get stuck in some menus with no way to back out, requiring you to force close and start over.
UX is a disaster. I feels like they had GIMP devs work on this interface too.
Replying to @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
Since it relies on Openstreetmaps if an address isn’t added it can’t find it. You’ll likely always be able to find the street, but you may need to add the specific number yourself. Then once it’s entered it’s available for everyone.
Replying to @potter2010@lemmy.ca
I use it frequently and the search is flawed. I literally introduced the name of a bank letter by letter and it would not show any of the 10 bank agencies of that bank that were nearby. Instead of the bank it showed me a water deposit kilometers away. If I partially deleted words, it would show me all the bank instances in the whole country ranked by distance (the correct output).
I do not agree about the UX, it is good.
Replying to @oakward@feddit.org
The street addresses are displayed as City, Street Name, Street Number, State, Country.
Explain how that isn’t a crime against humanity.
Replying to @asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
Not everywhere uses the same naming conventions as the US. See also, dates.
Replying to @potter2010@lemmy.ca
That might actually explain why it doesn’t work that great for me… Good to know