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Organic Maps is a free, privacy-focused offline maps and navigation app for tourists, hikers, bikers, and drivers, made by the creators of MAPS.ME app

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manmachine, to random
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May be small news in general, but it is huge for me — latest update of @organicmaps now has speech-synth street names in navigation mode! Thank you very much to everyone there who worked on merging and testing this feature; whatever helps to check the screen less while driving with guidance is very much appreciated.

organicmaps,
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@niavy @manmachine This setting should be enabled when you install the June OM update.

qgustavor, to random
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Montividiu, Goiás, Brazil is a mapping challenge:
Google Maps has a lot of roads misnamed, like a bunch of R. das Avencas and two Av. Rio Verde.
Bing Maps is offline at this moment here.
@organicmaps's OpenStreetMap do not have any Rua das Avencas in that city (I hope contributors from that city fix that).
I had to look at MapQuest to find the address I was looking for... yet I am not 100% certain that's the correct address.

organicmaps,
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@qgustavor as soon as you update these roads in OpenStreetMap.org and we release a map data update, your issue will be resolved )

organicmaps,
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@qgustavor Cool, thanks! Let's make this world a better place together )

can, to random
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@organicmaps why does it not show me the town of San Gimignano as a search result?

organicmaps,
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@can villages are not yet included in the world map. Did you download the map region with it?

organicmaps, to random
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The May 2024 Organic Maps update supports bookmarks and tracks sorting by name, paved paths are white, and unpaved ones are brown. And there are so many other changes and fixes, thanks to our contributors! Update and enjoy, and don't forget to update maps too. And donate to support the open-source, community-driven, privacy-focused maps project! Get the update at https://omaps.app/get and read more details about the improvements here: https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-05-19/the-may-2024-organic-maps-update-bookmarks-and-tracks-sorting-by-name-gpx-fixes/

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Improved paved/unpaved paths
OM sorted bookmarks

organicmaps,
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@karmalakas gplay

organicmaps,
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@jeremy_list import kml, kmz or gpx tracks. Track recording is in development.

organicmaps,
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@muttkrate an improved list management is planned too )

kravietz, to infosec
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Going through this excellent book by Shaun Pinner, much recommended! There’s many lessons to learn from this book but from my #infosec angle there are a few. Firstly, always keep an off-line maps app on your phone (I use OsmAnd). As a test — switch on airplane mode and try to survive for a day. Can you still navigate from point A to point B? Secondly, keep your social media profiles friends-only access. Thirdly, don’t keep any passwords in memory - it’s a bad practice from security point of view anyway, but I never thought about the interrogation angle. A password manager locked with biometrics and PIN and random passwords everywhere will prevent you from finding yourself in situation where you’ll be begging your interrogators to check another password because you might have remembered wrong.

organicmaps,
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@notsoloud @kravietz please let us know if you have ideas on how to make OM even easier to use for “non-geeks” )

organicmaps,
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@holothuroid isn’t there an option to sort bookmarks in a list by their modification date? How would you improve it?

organicmaps,
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@holothuroid did you try to open a list and tap three dots at the top right?

organicmaps,
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@geonerd @notsoloud @kravietz what do you mean by planning ahead of time? Can’t you do it right now? Saving routes is planned.

organicmaps,
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@geonerd @notsoloud @kravietz make a single tap, long tap, or select any search result/bookmark, and press “Route From”. That’s so easy )

mmcm, to MountainBiking
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TIL that @organicmaps has a (very WIP, but still) desktop app, and so now I can produce side-by-side comparisons. Voilà the query for "café" in #Toulon

Note also how the information is shown much more explicitly on the OrganicMaps view. The google map only becomes useful to #bike / #pedestrian once you zoom all the way in. Somehow their designers seem to be afraid of contrast or sth. 🤷

I just love how #OSM is so much better, thanks to all involved! 🫶

Screenshot of the OrganicMaps desktop app showing the same down-town Toulon, with the same query "café". A bunch of places are highlighted, and the detail on the roads and the choice of colours makes the map much more useful to non-cars.

organicmaps,
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@josterburg @mmcm what can be improved in OM?

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