Love CoMaps, but I’ve found that the search kinda sucks. It often doesn’t find house numbers (only blocks) and frequently can’t find landmarks or buildings even when searched for by the name that shows up on the map. Am I missing something?
Thanks for your recommendatios. I haven’t read your articles on CoMaps, but when I looked at the PlayStore (I mean Aurora Store) preview pictures of the app, it looked more or less the same. It’s probably because both are based on OSM, but, currently, I’m happy with Organic Maps.
Regarding your comment about Brave. I’ve read the article you provided and I always thought there was something not right about Brave, but I saw a chart that compared different Browsers and it said it was better than DDG, so I switched. After reading this article though I really might switch again.
But what is IronFox? Are you using it? Why have I never heard of it?
I think they’re just bad at PR. 😅 I have been using it for two-three months now and I’m quite happy with it. It’s like LibreWolf. A Firefox derivative.
Basically Organic Maps’ private owners planned to commercialize and make components of the application closed source. Very much not in the Open Source spirit that had been touted, for which many external contributors donated their time. So, those who actually gave a shit about being open source forked the project into CoMaps. That is why the two apps very much look the same, because they more or less are, aside from the intentions of their developers.
I’d recommend CoMaps:
I’d recommend IronFox:
Love CoMaps, but I’ve found that the search kinda sucks. It often doesn’t find house numbers (only blocks) and frequently can’t find landmarks or buildings even when searched for by the name that shows up on the map. Am I missing something?
https://git.sr.ht/~amolith/adresilo
This app is really helpful with that, and allows you to pull up the coordinates to an address or specific location and share it with your mapping app.
Something went wron with that link.
Sorry about that! Here it is on F-Droid. It is called Adresilo:
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.adresilo.android/
Thanks for your recommendatios. I haven’t read your articles on CoMaps, but when I looked at the PlayStore (I mean Aurora Store) preview pictures of the app, it looked more or less the same. It’s probably because both are based on OSM, but, currently, I’m happy with Organic Maps.
Regarding your comment about Brave. I’ve read the article you provided and I always thought there was something not right about Brave, but I saw a chart that compared different Browsers and it said it was better than DDG, so I switched. After reading this article though I really might switch again.
But what is IronFox? Are you using it? Why have I never heard of it?
I think they’re just bad at PR. 😅 I have been using it for two-three months now and I’m quite happy with it. It’s like LibreWolf. A Firefox derivative.
Basically Organic Maps’ private owners planned to commercialize and make components of the application closed source. Very much not in the Open Source spirit that had been touted, for which many external contributors donated their time. So, those who actually gave a shit about being open source forked the project into CoMaps. That is why the two apps very much look the same, because they more or less are, aside from the intentions of their developers.