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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/
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 😆
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
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.
Replying to @LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social
I mean I had a similar experience but just started adding locations I needed, probably up to about 45 now
Replying to @LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social
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