Organic Maps・Offline Maps, GPS Customer Service

I downloaded this because I wasn’t going to have data on my trip to Europe, and I’m on a version of iOS that doesn’t support offline map download in the stock maps app. Let me tell you, this app is an absolute life saver and genuine convenience to have. It lets you download maps for any country you want and then once you do that, the maps work 100% offline because it uses your GPS to determine where you are. I’ve tested it thoroughly, and as long as you’re on the surface or not too far underground, it always works. You can even search places on the map like stores, and it finds the nearest ones to you and can route to them from your current location, and even shows you driving/walking/biking/subway distances and times. You can mark favorites/pins on the map and name them so you never get lost. We were having trouble locating our Airbnb but I pinned the location before we left so we were able to find it effortlessly. It’s very battery efficient, versatile, and simplistic. Best of all, it’s completely free and has no premium features locked behind a paywall, or any ads! There’s nothing to hate here, so the developers have my utmost respect for making such an awesome app. I’m happy to say this will absolutely replace the Apple Maps app. 5/5 stars from me!

I tried Apple and Google maps (offline / downloaded maps) AND the official National Parks app and none of them came close to the usability of this app. Apple and Google maps were super hard to read / visually see the trails, and required you be a certain zoom level (to be highlight the trail) that was too far in to be useful, used a decent bit of battery life even in airplane mode, AND couldn't route in offline mode. This app fixed all those problems, smaller offline map size, insanely legible trails and legends, almost no battery drain, showed elevation charts, and I could search offline. Came across a couple on the mountain that were struggling to navigate with one of the above apps and was able to instantly tell them where we were and where they wanted to go. They were shocked how easy this app made it seem and I recommended it to them. Perfect, 5 stars, love it. Can't explain how great it feels to have a proper working offline digital map.

I’m literally laughing at my own review title because it’s one of those things you never expect to have to say... But yes, after not using Apple or Google maps for some time, I had to look up directions to my doctors office this morning and after my directions turned into a screen of ads, I switched from one app to the other, and realized both are just feeding me a bunch of ads while I’m trying to research my route to ensure that I can arrive safely. Why on earth anyone would think that was a good idea is beyond me - and apparently everyone else on the Internet lol Thankfully it looks like everyone else has been struggling with this longer than I have, so I was able to quickly find Organic Maps, download it, see that it has dark mode, enter a test route, and see that it’s actually giving me directions to my doctor’s office and not showing me any other irrelevant information in the process. It seems so basic yet why did I have to download a third app to get this basic functionality? LOL Looking forward to getting where I need to go, without wasting my limited, hyperfocused, energy, on swiping away irrelevant information! :) thank you for creating this app and keeping it relevant! :)

I recently downloaded this app after hearing about it. Previously, I relied on applications such as Avenza and Gaia maps for offline navigation. However, they presented challenges: downloading additional offline areas incurred costs, and certain features were inaccessible. Organic Maps stands out due to its user-friendly interface, support, and extensive features. Nevertheless, I have a few suggestions: - It would be beneficial if users could press and hold on any location on the map to view its elevation. This would facilitate the determination of precise elevations anywhere on the map. - Integration of additional map layers (such as Satellite, Shaded relief, etc.) and the ability to download them for offline use. - Implementation of advanced navigation and GPS tools, including area calculation, coordinates derivation by offset (enabling users to select a location, specify distance and direction, and generate coordinates), GPX track recording, selection of various compass types (magnetic, true, grid), and dynamic routing. This app is commendable, and the incorporation of these features would further enhance its utility.

Downloaded Organic Maps a while back for privacy reasons. But even if Google were to suddenly become champions of ethical behavior, I’d still be glad I downloaded this app. The ability to download maps for offline use is invaluable when hiking and would have been an absolute lifesaver back when I passed through Ontario, unaware that my cell service provider was completely absent there. Plus, the trail maps themselves are far superior to what I’ve seen elsewhere. That being said, I have noticed a few issues: - Lately it’s been freezing up every time I try to edit a place. When I tap Edit Place it brings me to the edit screen, but I can’t tap anything there. - The Manage Route option does nothing, whether I tap or drag it. - When adding a place to the map, sometimes there is no category available that fits. For example, there is a fencing club that I tried to add, which is how I noticed this issue. It might be a good idea to add an Other category (or something similar) for things like this. Overall, this is a pretty solid app. I’m grateful for the privacy it gives me and for the ability to navigate in areas with no cell service, and adding places/information as I find them helps me feel like I’m making a difference in the world.

Organic Maps scared me. Using a new maps app, especially one that you’ve only heard about from strangers on the internet, is a very terrifying experience. Will it hold up? I put it to the test in an hour long drive, from one larger city to a metro area. I made it! While Apple Maps has more bells and whistles during the routing experience, Organic Maps does the job. It makes up for it in many other areas, such as the fact that OpenStreetMap is an incredible project, and it’s great to put it to use; it allows us to download maps; and it’s far more beholden to its users than any closed-source app.

It is extremely difficult to get the app to get directions somewhere because of its inability to accept address numbers as part of the destination. Edit: After deleting a neighboring state’s map, my destination returns address numbers now. Still keeping the rating at 3 stars because although it’s a workaround, it’s inconvenient to go without a map I want. Edit 2: After redownloading the neighbor state’s map, I was able to see the address that I previously searched for. I just wish that the search results would put addresses that have address numbers at the top of the list. Increasing rating to 4 stars, reserving 5 stars for when the search results display locations with matching address numbers at the top.

Yeah, overall it’s pretty much gets the job done. It’s taking me some time to get used to creating bookmarks and what not since you don’t pinpoint exact addresses, but instead like the block for various search results since most of my search results are generally residencies. But overall, it gets the job done. I have noticed sometimes that when you try to go into settings in the middle of navigation, however, I think there’s a bug that freezes the interface when you try to scroll in the settings window while navigation is active on this version. Aside from that, I think it works great. I hope that bug gets fixed.

Seriously I can’t find anything bad to say about this app. Whether you are traveling, hiking, or in an emergency situation this is your best bet. You can use it offline which is a game changer and download the areas you need or all of it for future reference. You also have options for grid style or terrain layout when hiking or in an emergency situation. So much more efficient and easy to use. Much more to describe but you will not be disappointed I promise. This will be the last map you ever download and the best thing is it’s absolutely free. Great job developers I’m very impressed 👏👊😉

Shows detailed OSM data with fully offline downloads. Light battery usage. Nice dark mode when relevant. Topo contours, peaks, and trails in "outdoor mode" are often better than official trail maps. Interface for editing OSM data is simple and easy to use. In fact all of the interfaces are relatively simple and let you do most things without excessive tapping around. Very nicely designed overall. The search is not very "smart", and requires a few tries to get what I want; unsure if that's custom or it's just calling Nominatim, but it could use some future improvements. Turn-by-turn navigation is also not great for driving, the directions are OK but the callouts are not very useful.

Excellent openstreetmap interface, clean and easy to see/follow. Highly recommended for non-road travel such as trails, paths, stairs where Google maps or Apple Maps are poor or missing those items entirely. Con: tracking function works well to track the path, but estimates of total mileage and especially total elevation gain/loss are not as accurate as other paid apps such as alltrails, outdooractive, Gaia, calTopo, etc. Bottom line is though, I keep it on the front page of my home screen and use it all the time both home and away.

More stable than OMS with better UI, using it in Venice which has lots of little backroads. I’ll update as I use it Update: after the end of our trip in Italy, I can officially say it was quite useful. Was great anywhere there was no internet, even if you were on route to somewhere it could keep track. And I don’t mean one bar, I mean no internet I was able to use it hiking when USA cell providers international abilities were completely down. TLDR. Amazing anywhere your primary map won’t work as long as the area is downloaded.

In my opinion, this app has just the right amount of features to get the job done and still be easy to use. I can confirm that the searching, routing and navigating features all work very well without a data connection. I particularly like being able to view GPX files. I also like using the "Add stop" button to tweak a route when routing. *************** Response to developer’s question regarding improvements for motorcycle use: I think it would be helpful if the up/down volume buttons could be used to zoom in/out on the map. Most motorcycle gloves are not touch screen friendly. I have a stylus mounted to my motorcycle that I use to make adjustments, but that is only safe to use when stopped. Mapping physical buttons to features (zoom, orientation, appearance, record, etc) would make it much safer and convenient to use while moving.

I was a bit skeptical at first given the amount of reviews but am very pleased. I have not been able to test it without service yet but have tried it multiple times in airplane mode and not connected to WiFi. I am disappointed with navigation. I try to search a destination and it doesn’t come up. Though that feature doesn’t work as expected, IT DOES WORK VERY WELL with a specific point. You select a spot on the map and it navigates very well! Highly Impressed!

As the title says. It’s amazing because it interfaces with OpenStreetMaps which has the most up-to-date location info which is crowd-sourced. The app itself had a minimalist design but without lacking anything needed. I only wished it allowed me to sync saved locations to any folder instead of just iCloud Drive (which I’m trying to avoid).

If you're a person that grew up using physical maps, this program is what you want, to transition you to the modern era. You can use it without a cell signal, simply gps, and since the phone and computational algorithms are stored offline …you can dynamically change your route without long " recalculating" nonsense. Takes up very little hard space. just download the city, state, region maps you want when you have a connection. Review the route beforehand and you're golden golden. Also has turn by turn spoken TTS (text to speech)

Organic Maps is the best map application there is. It uses extremely accurate data from the OpenStreetMap community. It has turn by turn voice navigation that supports walking, cycling, driving, and public transportation networks in various regions. The driving time estimates are accurate thanks to speed limit data. There is also offline Wikipedia data for some POI making it easy to plan a trip with no cellular service.

I’ve been looking for an open source maps app with turn by turn navigation, and I’ve been messing around with this app for awhile, and the simplicity of the design and ease of use allows for me to stop using google or Apple Maps. Also knowing that this app is open source, and the community will keep improving it makes me want to stay around for the long run and watch it improve. Keep up the great work!

Best offline map service, and best application for OpenStreetMap data. Useful in both urban and wilderness environments, I’ve used it across north and central America, and Europe. Great for hiking as it has almost all trails (subject to OpenStreetMap), with light and fast downloads, and easy on battery consumption. Fantastic backup for other more internet dependent map services from Google and Apple. I always have it on my device with local area or destination downloaded.

Highly detailed offline maps imo better than Apple Maps (only online). Tons of features like places to eat that tell you many different food options near you and give you a route to follow to get there. Honestly amazed that you can access all this stuff on airplane mode without service or wifi, AND GPS WORKS???? I’ll be using this ALL the time when I backpack Central and Eastern Europe for 3 months. I’ll make another review after I do that.

I downloaded maps of each destination on a cruise before we left home. Great for navigating foreign cities, especially in areas with no available cellular data. Also handy for showing cab drivers exactly where you want to go when language is a barrier. It also dissuades cabbies from taking the long route in order to drive up the fare, since they know that you know how to get there.

Superb app with great updates and a very, very fast map rendering engine, especially when dealing with complex maps with lots of tracks and POIs. Impressive stuff. Would love to see heapmap contour lines and cell phone coverage layers, though I appreciate the latter is quite country specific. It’s just one of the few features that keeps me using a certain paid alternative. Thanks and keep up the great work.

I love this app. It has helped me multiple times. While in towns it’s better than google maps for me. I find it very intuitive and able to get me where I need to go often. It’s very nice when I have no service. I travel a lot, so this makes finding my way much easier. I also have many places pinned that I wouldn’t have been able to save otherwise. Thank you to the makers of this fine product.

Terrific app. Did some international travel, didn’t have data, but still needed to navigate. Download the areas you are going to while on WiFi and you are all set for when you hit the road. Tried other apps (some paid) and Organic Maps is the best. A few quirks in the UI compared to other map applications you might be more used to but it’s very intuitive. Great app.

Love that you can import KML maps and use the app offline. This is perfect for me as I often go out into the desert with no cell reception. Two features I would love to see are: - satellite imagery with offline support, - the ability to start and stop a “session” which records a path you walk/drive/bike during that session, and saves that path into a file local to the device

Truly great app. Works offline, saves favorites and locations, shows everything that I need and nothing more. The most truly impressive is that it’s open source, respects your privacy, and doesn’t try to sell you on crazy upgrades or annoying ads. I really want to thank the developers and team who make this possible, it’s one of the few apps that I trust.

This app is great works CarPlay and it does not need to have internet connection if you download the maps. No matter where you are even if there is no service you can pull up directions to go anywhere. I recently used this app on a long trip and I would give it 10 stars if possible. Thank you developer for this wonderful app.

Nice to have an offline option. Doesn’t show multiple route options like Google maps and the voice instructions occur as you are at an intersection which is fine for hiking but occurs a bit late to be practical for driving-especially if you are unable to watch the screen which does show an upcoming turn. Should be even better with future enhancements.

This app is just amazing, and the CarPlay app is beautiful. One minor issue I have is that it doesn’t seem to play well with deviating off the main route, and seems to try to get you back onto the original route rather than recalculating a more efficient way. I’m sure the team is working to make it better as always. Keep up the great work!

All around I’ve not been disappointed at all. NO ads or interruptions. GREAT on battery usage. I can use it on my person all day without needing my phone on a charger or needing an A/C unit to keep my phone from overheating. Thank you for true developers providing a true product for FREE mind you, please consider donating to this team.

100% free. No ads & no tracking. Plus open source. Perfect! Would only ask for bicycle routes to be highlighted when zoomed out, as you have to zoom in a lot before the colourful bicycle paths are visible. Also the navigation prompts would be great if the voice is louder as can’t hear it on speaker. Otherwise please keep going! Will donate to support this great project.

This app does an excellent job of GPS routing and is completely free and open source! You can use the maps offline which also makes it great for hiking. I hope in the future they create the option to show contour lines in feet instead of meters but that’s a very insignificant complaint. Overall, I highly recommend.

I might be doing an update but so far: (m10-d12-y23) Appreciate all the efforts to make an app free and useful for those who doesn’t have the money to pay a lot for a super app maps but the essential to take a look on digital maps to have an idea where they are or where there can go in an emergency situation for Apple users which is hard to find.

Thank you for all the recent efforts improving searches. It used to be a real struggle to find places. Only minor wish for now is improvements in bookmark exports. Exporting one list at a time to put on another device is a bit painful painful when you have a dozen or so of them. Please keep up the good work! 👍🏻👍🏻

I cannot seem to be able to input an address and select it if the location that I want to navigate to is not on openstreetmap. Edit: as the dev said if it isn’t in the database of osm or tiger I would not be able to find it, checked and that address is not in any databases used for the us map.

I want to move from one place to another, entering my current location and another location I want to go to. However, I see that the place I want to go to is my current location. I have tried many times to solve this problem, but I haven't found any success. I hope you can help me solve this problem. Thank you.

Overall app is good very useful but in pakistan like near my house alot of things have been built like petrol pump and banks etc but its no visible on this app so i was thinking i iam in a new area and want to go to a bank than maybe the near bank has been recently built but the app will not detect it and it will show me bank which is 6m away like wasting my time so ill hope you will add more details

One of the best mapping systems out there. Programmers are responsive in correcting errors quickly. Open streets is the maps used and although missing parts in programming, it rivals both Google and Apple Maps. Users are encouraged to put in places within the software itself to improve efficiency. Keep up the good work.

What an incredible app. Pro-level Offline maps in case you do not have cellular or wireless access. This app can literally save you in some circumstances and is mandatory for emergency planning. Very well laid out app with all the personalized settings you would need. I cannot believe it’s free. It’s so good, I will be donating to the developers annually.

I am a big fan of offline map availability, so naturally testing a lot of offline maps. So far Organic is the best overall. Whole world takes only 80Gb of space. The only suggestion to developers is to works with the maps’s color palette. It could be a bit more user friendly.

Overall, I think this is a lightweight app that closely mimics Google Maps. Search is a little trial and error so far, but I’m liking that it is pretty feature rich and the CarPlay app isn’t a paid feature. I’d love to see more specific lane guidance for driving directions, stop signs on the map, and freeway badges rather than just the numbers.

I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far, I miss traffic updates but that’s something that I can learn to live without. I would give it a fifth star if the option to have the map on a split screen on Car Play were added. Now it just defaults to full screen and I like having both the map and music controls on the screen

I’m so happy organic maps exists, and I wish the project all the success in the world!

This is the app I tell everyone to download — at the very least as a fallback — whether they are heading into the wilderness or going traveling.

Living or travelling where cell service is unreliable this is the offline map you need. Thorough data, useful navigation and completely reliable (unlike Google, Apple offline options).

Thank you for creating this app. The other maps app is getting aggressive with commercialization and is becoming unusable.

I can’t believe this app exists. It is what map.me was when it first came out, but better.

Very solid offline mapping app. thank you so much for creating/developing and continuing to improve it!

Non-intrusive, simple yet powerful interface, and fast response with offline maps. I love you guys!!!

Can you please support multiple windows on iPad

Increasing review to 4 stars for developer response 😇 I use the app when planning vacations. Sometimes when I open the app, by default it shows my current location. So annoying :(. I wish the app would show the last location I was looking at (eg the vacation destination I was planning). Update #2: - I was using app to plan a vacation. Re-opened it two hours later and it defaulted to my current location :(. - eg I’m planning a trip across Europe. I’m star-ing a bunch of things (eg my hotel / things I want to see). My vacation planning sometimes takes weeks / months. Sometimes my life gets busy so I need to stop using app for a few days. I only use app when I plan vacations. For day-to-day travel I use Apple Maps. - I have an idea! If I move the map around there’s a target button I can tap to instantly jump to my current location. What if upon app launch, there was a button (eg a back arrow) I could tap to jump to my previously viewed location? If I move around the view in my ‘current location’ then a circle timer appears above the ‘back’ button and it’d disappear after five seconds (I.e. not needed by user).

The app is everything you need from a navigation app which is great. The only issue I’m facing is that CarPlay can bug out after completing a trip. It won’t let me interact with it to set another destination unless I use the iPhone app first. Other than that, it’s a great app overall.

Quand je vois la qualité de cette application versus les Google Maps ou Plans, j’hallucine

Free, no adds and easy to use overseas and in your neighbourhood! We have been using this for years and it’s been fantastic. Has elevation, walking route info, amenities etc. It’s my go-to travel app.

The only navigation app you need.

Finally something that lets you breadcrumb your tracks and save them without having to be online

The best map that is not spyware

This is an excellent map application. I used GPX tracks to walk 400 km through the mountains in Sicily and it never let us down. It was easy to load the downloaded tracks, name them and change the colour so that each track was distinct from the other. Navigating on the ground was also easy as I could zoom in to a very detailed view to ensure we were going the right direction-very important in the mountains! There are also many walking trails natively populated. Thanks to all the contributors!!

To begin, I would like to say I am terrible at navigating. I once tried driving to a friend’s house in Stony Plain and ended up in Edmonton. Google maps worked fine, but when I got lost I didn’t have WiFi to find my location or get directions. This app has all the same functions as the map that comes with your phone, but instead of relying on wifi it downloads a map of your surrounding area. This has been an invaluable tool for someone as incompetent as me.

I’m trying to figure out how to use elevation data sets to understand total climb per route for cycling.

I’ve used this app for more than a year now and I find myself using it more than google map or Komoot. The ability to use it offline is extremely useful.

I love organic maps!!!

I predownload maps for when I’m on a cruise or outdoors and it works amazingly well.

Since maps.me become paid, this application has made step forward to provide all what it offered with unlimited maps. They use same free OSM data.

Love this APP! Use it to navigate with GPS and the maps are amazing. You can down load an entire region so you have all of the maps and don't need to worry about missing one. I have all regions from Vancouver to Ontario Manitoba border . All fits nicely on my phone.

J’adore

Great app but please add public transit navigation as that’s mainly how I get around

Moved from an other popular OSM app to this one. I will contribute financially, it's so good!!! Thanks

It doesn’t show satellite images or update you on traffic or opening hours live, but aside from that, it is basically the same or better than Google Maps. You can download maps which allows you to still navigate without an internet connection, very useful to a hiker like me, and the maps also have trails and names of natural features like mountains. You can get directions and times of arrival via car but also via walking or biking or transit. Great addition for anyone

There is no option to cancel en route stop — - if you miss one stop (road ) or just to bypass it it will direct you to that stop no matter how far away you go.

I am very happy with this app! Thank you so much!

I absolutely love this app, no ads, payments and no company add-on love it, but I do have a request for bus public transit routing since there is a bus and train service in my city, and it is a bit inconvenient when I don't want to take my car and take public transit.

Thanks for this great app! Free and doesn’t track you!

Thank you for all u do :) ! the only thing that would make me feel more secure though is if you had older versions of the app available on your website or github :) -- please do this so that we can always revert or if we have an old phone, etc. please please do this so that it is forever secure

I love how lightweight and responsive the app is also the entire US is only 15 GB to download offline? If it were Google or apple maps it would probably pushing 500 GB. Well done devs.

The UI is really easy to use and it DOES work offline I used this for. Road trip I loved it! Must Get!

I recently did a roadtrip on West Canada, no signal anywhere near and Organic Maps saved me, just make sure you download the maps before leaving though

Probably the best map app I've ever used. The downloads are quick and easy, and the features you have even without internet are astounding. :D

Street Directions is not in my way of direction. It follows real North whiv is not good to me.

Great for loading offline gpx files for hiking

Absolutely love this map. Just started using it and imported all of my tracks from another application, which worked perfectly. It’s probably lacking in a few features I would like, but overall this map is very good and for me even has off-road route, which is very important for how I use a map. I would highly recommend this map if you were looking to become more private, while using your device, which means not having your map, selling the details of every trip that you take, and every location that you are at

I have used numerous paid map apps and they are either to bloated or slow and take forever and chew up a lot of memory with offline maps. Super fast and it just works. Love it

Very detailed map, and clear to follow. With many features

I have been looking for an app like this for years. Feature rich and very useful for remote locations with no cell coverage. Closest app I have found to the features of an offline Garmin gps. Very flexible and powerful important capabilities.

Got me back to civilization every time over more than a dozen countries, most footpaths are on, often bushwhacking between accurately. The best!

Thanks so much for making such a wonderful app free

I’ve been using organic maps for a few months now, I have the testflight version so I can get beta tester updates. The fact that it runs off of osm is awesome. All I have to do is log in and I can update incorrect things in my hometown! The downloadable offline maps are also amazing!

My understanding is this is a product from the same people who created ma***.m*, which used to be amazing. This is even better!

If you're trying to rely less on the evil tech corps, this is a fantastic maps app that uses OpenStreetMaps. CarPlay works beautifully.

I love this app. Keeps me on track when riding my atv in Northern Ontario outside of cell service.

I'd like to start by saying I love both the concept and execution of this app. It's clean, snappy, and only has what you actually need. Some people might miss not having customer reviews for businesses. Me personally, I couldn't care less. It's more than a fair trade for the security of using an offline app. I do however have an issue with how hungry this app is. If you're using turn based navigation, you better be plugged in or it will sap your battery pretty quick. I mostly rely on navigation apps to give me a quick eta before I depart. However, if you are someone that needs to use navigation daily to get to where you're going, this app is significantly more power-hungry than the more popular ones provided to you by your friendly local alphabet agencies. I really do love the app outside of that issue, and I hope the devs can continue to improve it further.

I’ve been on a privacy kick recently trying to limit myself from big tech tracking everything. There aren’t too many FOSS options for iOS, but this app was on a list so I figured I’d try it. While I absolutely love the offline capabilities and being open source, the maps are severely outdated for my area. My street name is wrong, as well as the street for the house I grew up in. I assume they are pre 911 addresses. Kinda hard to use the app if ALL addresses are that old. My child’s dance studio is moving to another building. The address doesn’t even exist in this app. Unfortunately I can’t make use of it.

The function for Record Track often does not record anything, even though it shows on screen that it is recording. I was only able to get it to work once. The command Stop Track Recording does not work. It continues staying on the state of showing that it is recording. In order to stop, I need to press the Save Track button. And if it didn’t record anything then it shows an error message that there is nothing to save. Tried this on two phones running different versions of iOS (17 and 18.5) and this app has the same issues on both of them.

When I plug in a destination, select it, press “Route to,” and then type and select an origination, it forgets about the destination that I chose and gives me useless information about the origin, including its latitude and longitude. I just want to see how many miles and minutes exist between two locations and then potentially travel that route via the navigation, but these basic functions are apparently not available or are ot remotely intuitive to figure out. I tried many times, and now I’m deleting the app. Google and Waze are super-simple to use, but I was looking for a private option.

First of all thank you for this type of appreciation which is solve the problem of net hanging but i wish to add another features lik : when i us it with net it doesn’t took me another way or option to choose, the other important thing when i face 2 ways or have to take a bridge or tunel it doesn’t alert me or there is no signal on map lik this 🔀↘️↗️⤵️⤴️ to clear the way especially when the road is crowded i have to choose rapidly Thank you

I was so hopeful for this alternative map, but first thing when i try to adjust the size, it rotates all out of wack. I just checked developers board and they have PURPOSELY decided to NOT have a setting for North staying North, etc. This is an absolute no-go, and I'm not getting started with such a nerd toy so unbelievably unrealistic - it is one of those things that's not made for normal people, imho, not going any farther, but hope it works for the techies who love tinkering with these gee-whiz kinds of things. I'll check back in a few years and see if some ADULTS are in charge. Thanks.

Bicycle routing often uses terrible routes that seem to ignore even the best bicycle infrastructure and paths. It’s not an OSM problem as “OsmAnd Maps” and the OSM website do a great job with building an ideal route. Looking at the issues on GitHub, it seems like this is a commonly reported issue going back at least 2 years. I’ve donated to this project because I want it to succeed but this is my number 1 use case for an app like this and it’s very broken.

This is not a complaint just info others might want to know. I appreciate the people who have put this together! When I want directions to the nearest Walmart I’ll type in “Walmart” and the nearest one doesn’t show up, but as soon as I add a “s” (supercenter) “walmart s” it shows up. This happens quite a bit so keep typing the full name and what you’re looking for might show up. ETA is way longer than it should be. For example when I put in a route I know takes 45 minutes I will get a ETA of one hour. This happens anytime I use it. Once you start driving big chunks of time will start coming off the ETA. Just know you will be early which is better than late! Once you have a destination it works as it should.

Search by address or coordinates is not implemented. You look for a house on the neighbouring street, but you get inaccurate addresses hundreds of kilometres away.

It’s unfortunate that the app is so glitchy. After the new update I can’t even enter an address completely before it pulls up a random result. When I do manage to enter an address, it can’t find it and gives me only the street. It’s not a new address and it’s a shopping mall