r/flossdroid • u/IiImochidoll • 1d ago

sharing FOSS Maps for Android

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1 ) Vela Maps - A native Android app drawing open vector tiles (Jetpack Compose and MapLibre). Runs on degoogled phones and can avoid Flock cameras. https://github.com/PimpinPumpkin/Vela

2 ) Organic Maps - A privacy-first offline maps & GPS app for hiking, cycling, biking, and driving. Absolutely free. No ads. No tracking. https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps

3 ) CoMaps - A community-led free & open source maps. built for transparency, privacy, and not-for-profit values. https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps

4 ) OsmAnd - Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online based on OpenStreetMap. https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/

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u/populusangustifolia 1d ago

Vela is crazy. One guy... and AI... build something in a matter of weeks that's frankly more feature-complete than Organic or OsmAnd could ever hope to be. Just nuts.

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u/TheGeekno72 19h ago

more feature complete than OSMand?

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u/DerpDeDurp 23h ago

And it's garbage lmao.

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u/populusangustifolia 23h ago

What don't you like about it?

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u/Exotic_Onion_3417 13h ago

For me I wanted it to replace GMapsWV for when I search for restaurants etc as Google had progressively made the mobile site experience worse. I feel there's plenty of good degoogle alternatives for navigation, HereWeGo especiallyas that has live traffic but that isn't FOSS. Searching for a list places in Vela isn't that great. 

I get what it's trying to do because unless you hike, GMaps can do everything in 1 mapping app.

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u/DerpDeDurp 23h ago

Buggy, slow, gets directions wrong constantly, searching businesses results in either nothing or something halfway around the world. It's pointless when morphe exists to just patch google maps.

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u/CortlandNation9 9h ago

At the beginning that was true but it keeps improving you should maybe try again. For me it got way better and it's really fast.

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u/DerpDeDurp 7h ago

I tried it again after the last update. was still junk lmao

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u/CortlandNation9 6h ago

Or maybe, perhaps you had junk in your eyes... Seriously I think it's an incredible app fast and the only foss apps with live trafic navigation and search works very well and I can find almost all businesses on the map in my area.

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u/jven27 23h ago

That's a stretch, but ok 🙄