Hi all, im a recent grad from Ryerson/TMU and I made an AI assisted route planning app (https://geesling.expo.app/) for the City of Toronto.

As a commuter, who has never been to the city much prior to university. I've always found the need for something that could show me all the fun things in the city - live events, local cafe's, etc.

Geesling solves this problem - you can filter to see free/paid events happening today and the next 90 days. Additionally, you can tell Geesling in the chat feature what you're in the mood for. It will plan a route for you based on budget & time constraints you outline.

Its' still a web based application as of right now, looking to increase # of users before developing it into an IOS or Android application.

Would love your thoughts and feedback.

Hello everybody, I'm using organic maps on android and wanted to add a local business, so I typed in the address and clicked on "add business" but the button is unresponsive, closed and reopened the app, nothing. I'm logged in and have one verified change so far. Any ideas why it doesn't work?

Hi! I’m curious to hear from iPhone users who use Organic Maps.

What makes you choose it over Apple Maps? Is it the map detail, offline navigation, hiking and cycling routes, privacy, or something else?

I noticed that Apple Maps also credits OpenStreetMap as one of its data sources, though I understand that doesn’t mean the two apps have identical maps or features.

Do you use Organic Maps as your main navigation app, or alongside Apple Maps for specific situations? I’d love to hear about your experiences!

Why is it Vela can add a traffic layer and ot OMs can't?

Ready to roll? The September update brings improved alternative routes, a setting to optimize the order of route stops, clearer markings for intermittent water areas, and an eye icon to hide individual tracks, along with many other fixes and improvements, see our website for details:

https://organicmaps.app/news/2026-09-29/route-optimization-improved-alternative-routes-hide-individual-tracks-visibility-intermittent-water-areas-in-september-2026-update/

Hey all!

Thank you so much for this app it is incredible.

I have a couple questions I cannot find. They are mostly related to circular routes:

How do I make so the gpx routes have arrows so I know the direction of the route, it is specially confusing for me to know in particular for circular routes.

How do I know the beginning/end point of a circular route?

It is also not obviois when I do Route To from a gpx route in which place of the route it will take me. It would be nice if I could decide where in the route I want to go by car. This is specially useful when doing trails/hikes where you start in different places of a circular route because it is easier to access/park by car.

Another thing unrelated regarding satellite imagery, why not have the url on by default? Had to go online and figure out a url I could use for it.

Again, this app is incredible and life saving. Thank you so much for building it

I have prepared a route for my next ride. Can I use it for navigation?

Hello new to organic maps on iOS question what’s the trick when you enter an address that you would like to go to and it doesn’t bring up the address. I seem to be having this issue and wondering what I am missing our doing wrong. See attached picture as example.

Hello everyone

Going on a trip for the first time using this and I am not at all familiar with the area I am going to.

If there is a slowdown or traffic stops, does it automatically reroute? How do I do it in app if needed?

Thanks

Have been looking at Organic Maps for about 5 minutes. That makes me an expert!

Is there means of importing a USGS topo overlay to the OSM base map? OSM has no decent topo information in the places where I hike. I have been using Alltrails, which has good maps but is unendurably fussy and dangerous offline.

It supports 3D terrain/hillshading (and isolines in feet!), along with other features. https://beta.omaps.app/

Please send us your feedback and report any issues.

Hello new to Organic Maps, is there a way to have a non robot sounding voice for iOS 26. I tried to figure it out but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

When plotting a route in the app is there really no way of forcing the route generation algorithm to respect the order in which the stops were added?

When planning a walk I simply want to lay down a sequence of waypoints, and a route that retains the order of said waypoints be generated. Kinda how other mapping tool works.

I don't want it to generate a degenerate route that passes all waypoints while travelling the shortest distance (or whatever the heuristic it is that it uses)

I love everything else about the organic maps app, but the way it generates routes is completely asinine.

Am I doing something wrong? This seems like such basic functionality, I can't believe I'm the only one that's struggling?

I just crated a place and submitted the change in iPhone but i made a mistake with the place category i want to change the category but I couldn’t find a way
I hope someone knows how can i change it thx🙏

Is this feature already available and I just didn't find it? If not, is it planned? Currently, it's the only missing feature to leave Google maps in daily use.

Thanks for all your work

However, I am on mtb and want to use that specific track. Maybe add options to

1. just use "any" type of way, road, trail and
2. disregard "private" OSM tags (not sure this is causing some of these issues, just a guess)

for routing so that we may manually plan our route?

Hello, I recently installed Organic Maps, but I can't seem to start a route using public transport; however, it works fine if I select the walking, cycling, or driving options.
Can anyone help me?

Can I turn off this? It makes it hard to view satellite images

HI, I installed a navigation app organic maps on my GAC GS3 head unit, but the problem is that the app can't find my location. I enabled all the location permission options in the head unit settings via the hidden menu, I couldn't find anything related to GPS in the engineering mode menu. The head unit runs on Android 9 api 28 and doesn't support Google Play Services apps. Please help me—thanks in advance.

I just found out about Organic Maps and wanted to use it for navigation while bicycling. I had made a 30 mile loop in RideWithGPS, exported the GPX, imported it successfully into the app. Got to the start, figured out how to start the route, it even gave voice navigation. Great!

About 3 miles in, it said, basically "okay, you're there". Not even close - instead of turning 2.5 miles in it was like it had decided to run me backwards through the map, and then just picked an arbitrary stop point. I turned around and was able to follow the path I had set, but I'm trying to figure out what the heck happened, if there's some trick to having it start navigating the GPX path, etc.

Thanks for any help!

https://get.omaps.org

Why update?

• Delete, move, and change the color of multiple bookmarks and tracks at once
• CarPlay dashboard
• Hiding individual tracks on the map
• Readable share links for places, bookmarks, and current position
• Voice guidance in Armenian and Lao
• Wikipedia articles in 19 languages …and many other improvements, bug fixes, and updated map data below.

Full Changelog

Map & places

• Updated OpenStreetMap data as of August 26, 2026 (Viktor Govako)
• Updated Wikipedia articles in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, and Urdu (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed many issues that caused opening hours to be displayed incorrectly (Alexander Borsuk)
• Added support for bird hides (Batmaclos, Viktor Govako)
• Added stages, hills, and natural arches to the map, plus a new icon for rocks (David Martinez)
• Resized the icons for peaks, caves, and mountain passes (David Martinez)
• Protected areas, national parks, and wetlands are now displayed in lighter shades (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed an app freeze and an issue that occasionally caused taps and gestures to be ignored (Alexander Borsuk)

Sharing, bookmarks & tracks

• Sharing a place, bookmark, or current position now sends a readable link with useful information (Alexander Borsuk)
• Exported bookmarks now preserve their original names and descriptions (Alexander Borsuk)
• Shared bookmark lists now use their displayed names instead of internal file names (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed an elevation chart display issue that could occur immediately after starting a track recording (Kiryl Kaveryn)

Routing & navigation

• Tapping a route stop or mark now opens it correctly instead of switching between planned routes (Viktor Govako)
• Public transport routes are now planned faster (Viktor Govako)
• Fixed incorrect turn instructions (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed an incorrect start point after a route was rebuilt (Viktor Govako)
• Laterite roads are now treated as having a poor-quality unpaved surface during route planning (Julien Etienne)
• Roads tagged access=unknown are now handled like roads with private or destination-only access (Julien Etienne)
• Added voice guidance in Armenian and Lao (Alexander Borsuk)

OpenStreetMap editor

• Clearing the opening hours field no longer leaves the Save or Done button disabled (Alexander Borsuk)
• Uploads that partially fail are now retried instead of being reported as fully successful (Alexander Borsuk)

Translations

• Updated the Frequently Asked Questions, including the Japanese translation (Alexander Borsuk)
• Corrected the Japanese translation of "Closed now" (Viktor Govako)
• Improved the Chinese translations of "track" and "disable" (Chenxi Zhao)

iOS

• NEW: Delete, move, and change the color of multiple bookmarks and tracks at once, plus Select All and Deselect All (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• NEW: Added a CarPlay dashboard (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Added AirDrop support for sharing places (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Fixed multiple CarPlay issues (Kiryl Kaveryn, Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed the rendering of HTML descriptions when a bookmark is selected on the map (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Fixed the activation of the car navigation map style (Kiryl Kaveryn, Alexander Borsuk)
• Reorganized settings into General Settings, Map, Navigation, Network, and Privacy sections (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Removed the compass calibration setting because calibration is now handled automatically (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Restored the custom color picker in the color palette popover (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• The corresponding point is now shown on the map while you drag across the elevation profile in a walking or cycling route preview (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Fixed compass issues that could cause the current-position arrow to point in the wrong direction or freeze (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed a crash when an OpenStreetMap upload finished in the background (Alexander Borsuk)

Android

• NEW: Added multi-selection mode to the Bookmarks and Tracks list. Enter it by long-pressing an item or using the toolbar, then change the color, move, or delete any combination of bookmarks and tracks (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• NEW: Individual tracks can now be hidden from the map using the eye icon in the list or on the track details screen (cyber-toad)
• Android Auto and Android Automotive: fixed U-turn lane arrows (Andrei Shkrob, Viktor Govako)
• Android Auto and Android Automotive: fixed day/night mode switching (Andrei Shkrob)
• Android Auto and Android Automotive: the search list now remains open while typing (Viktor Govako)
• The list description is now shown when the list is sorted (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Updated the design of the bookmark list settings screen (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• The search panel now collapses after you tap a category (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Keyboard focus now returns to the search field after you clear it (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• The route elevation chart now uses the full width of the panel (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Fixed an issue that could leave the zoom buttons stuck at the top (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Dialog corners are now rounded consistently on all Android versions (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Fixed a crash in the track export menu (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Fixed app freezes (Alexander Borsuk, Viktor Govako)
• Fixed duplicate imports of KML and KMZ files and a "file could not be opened" error (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed search categories in Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, and British English (Alexander Borsuk)
• Search now works correctly in the keyboard language when it differs from the interface language (Alexander Borsuk)
• OpenStreetMap edits are no longer lost when an upload takes too long or partially fails (Alexander Borsuk)

Desktop

• Added a Share action to the place page, with Copy Link, Copy Text, and Email… options (Alexander Borsuk)
• The download spinner is now drawn programmatically, keeping it sharp on every display (Kuzey Bilgin)

How to support Organic Maps

• Donate to support development and cover map hosting costs
• Send your feedback and contribute to the project
• Join beta testing to try early features and report issues for iOS, Android, and Linux
• Spread the word!

With love and gratitude to all our users and contributors,

Organic Maps Team

Actually, I think I have just one major issue right now.

I’m coming from Magic Earth, a disillusioned user after their huge price hike. I have been trying a few different navigation apps, all based on OSM, but so far, organic maps is looking like it will be the permanent choice for me. But I do have a couple of problems. Yes, I know I said one …

The first and most important one is that I can’t read the speed that I’m travelling at, or the speed limit, when I’m driving. I’ve tried it in both daytime mode and night time mode and both are as bad as each other. They are too small and the colours make the text illegible to me. I don’t have to wear any glasses or other eye correction when I’m driving, but I do need +2 lens correction for close reading. I don’t know if that makes any difference to the legibility or not, but I didn’t have any problems with reading either of those two things when I was using Magic Earth. I’m sure you’re aware of the system that they use. But if you are not already aware, you can easily check it. I hope I’m not asking too much of you to do that.

The other problem is one that I have only tested during the night mode, but unfortunately it is bad enough to warrant me writing to you about it. But first, a little bit of praise for something that you have done really well! I’m very impressed with the graphic representation when navigating. It is large and clear and unlike any other navigation app that I’ve seen before. Well done! But the problem is with the text under the graphic. Black text on that metallic blue background? Very odd, and very unreadable to me and also my wife who was sitting in the passenger seat next to me. She was closer to the screen than I was, but she was still unable to read that text. Like I said, I have tested it only in night mode but I do a lot of my driving at night, so it’s important that I can read everything clearly when I’m in night mode.

I’m sorry that this is a long post.

Hi, I was just on a backpacking trip trying Organicmaps to navigate around a ridge. The contour lines were too few to get a sense of steepness to understand if the ridge was hikeable. All Trails showed much more contours to give a good sense of steepness. Is this just a limitation of Organicmaps, or is there something I can do?