Since the #39c3 in December, every first Sunday of the month has been a “Digital Independence Day” for trying out alternatives to dominant/big tech platforms.
If you’re looking to explore alternatives to Google or Apple Maps, why not give CoMaps – or any of the other open source map-applications that are based on data from #OpenStreetMap – a try!
You can learn more about the #DIDay here: https://edri.org/our-work/didit-edri-members-spark-movement-for-alternatives-to-big-tech/
#DIDit
Trying it out a little so far.
My only real thing so far is that it would be nice to have a web interface that doesn’t require installing anything on any device. Something that runs in the browser without needing to download maps first. But that would probably have to run quite differently than the app, so it might be well outside the scope of this project, at least for now.
(Windows and Mac OS versions would also be nice to have, and seems like porting them shouldn’t be too hard if you just half-ass it by using the Linux version with a compatibility layer. But, again, yeah… If development resources are scarce, I can definitely understand skipping those.)
The web interface is the official OSM at https://openstreetmap.org/ - it works well in both desktop and mobile browsers. The CoMaps app is mainly useful to those without mobile data plans or prefer not to, as it stores the maps offline/on-device.