Want to learn what the CoMaps community worked on during October? Learn about it in our latest "This Month in CoMaps" blog post here: https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-10-31/this-month-in-comaps-october-2026/

State of the Map España happens 6/7 November in Madrid. Are you a local? Join and meet up with our contributor Matheus, who will be presenting about CoMaps (and bring some stickers!).

New maps with OpenStreetMap data from November 1 are now out. Press "Check for Updates" to see them in-app!

Also: Did you know that the State of the Map Spain conference will be held upcoming weekend in Madrid? You might be able to catch some CoMaps folks!

Want to know how the integration for reviewing places works in CoMaps? Our contributor Maciek who made it happen wrote a blog post about it!

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-10-27/place-reviews/

Our latest maps with OpenStreetMap data from October 25 are now out. You can press "check for updates" in the app to see them and start downloading them.

Just in time for the 2026 State of the Map Latin America conference that is kicking off tomorrow in Mexico City. If you're there: Say hi to our contributor Bastian, listen to his talk about CoMaps, and grab some stickers! 🇲🇽

CoMaps has been my main map for a while now after using Organic Maps, and traffic calculation has alwsys been a downside of open source projects like these.

I recently stumbled upon Vela Maps, an open source app that uses Open Street Maps, and integrates Google Maps' traffic analytics and place search "anonymously" (logged out browser queries). Not degoogled, but a nice option. How do they do this? What does the CoMaps community think?

The State of the Map Latin America conference is taking place 27-29 October in Mexico City. If you want to help participants to find their way around town, we will do one more map generation on the 25th, so there's still time to add to OpenStreetMap or review POI via Mangrove Reviews/MapComplete.

Our contributor Bastian will be there to give a talk about CoMaps and distribute some of our stickers. If you'd like to meet up, get in touch via our community channels: https://www.comaps.app/community/

Since a few days, we got our first CDN node in Latin America, provided and run by the amazing Undernet community in Uruguay. Thanks to them, users in the region will benefit from faster map downloads. For a start we are exploring how well it works with users based out of Uruguay, Argentina and Venezuela.

If you are interested and able to help your local area in a similar way, get in touch via the channels listed on our website!

And you can learn more about Undernet here: https://undernet.uy/

Our latest maps with OpenStreetMap data from October 18 are now out. You can press "check for updates" in the app to see them and start downloading them.

Also: This weekend KDE España have their Akademy-es conference, and our contributor Diego will be there with talk (and some stickers!) to present CoMaps. ⛺

Our latest maps with OpenStreetMap data from October 12 are now out. You can press "check for updates" in the app to see them and start downloading them.

CoMaps release 2026.10.05 is now out via F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Codeberg and on iOS via the AppStore.

New features on Android include links to add Mangrove reviews via MapComplete and for iOS the support for CarPlay Dashboard.

The Google Play release is still waiting for review as has unfortunately become custom with their approval process.

Someone else posted a 'how to' question, so I figured I'd try to get some light on my pet peeve regarding the otherwise lovely CoMaps...

I have two routes here that I have planned. Is there a way to have CoMaps actually run navigation along these? I for sure haven't discovered how to do that.

This might be a stupid question.

I cannot seem to figure out how to map a route between two addresses. It always shows the route from where I am currently, or to my location.

How does one find the route between two addresses without being in one of them?

I end up having to use google maps for this. I need to do this kind of route searches all the time.

Otherwise, I love the app. Thanks to all contributors foe the amazing work!

Edit: just have to start pressing "Route from", I'm not sure how I missed that, was sure I tried it. Anyways, thanks everyone!

Next up, I have to figure how to add a waypoint...

There is a frustrating issue with the CoMaps work flow. If I copy an address from Google maps into the CoMaps search bar, the application cannot find it.

For example, if I copy the address listed for the Portland Art Museum into CoMaps search:

1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205

The search result varies. Sometimes it is:

Southwest 18th Avenue, 1219

Sometimes it is for the entire road:

Southwest Park Avenue

Is there a syntax issue here? You would think this would be a very easy find.

If you are interested in how we get the offline Wikipedia articles into our maps: The folks of Wikimedia Enterprise talked to some of our contributors about the process of downloading, extracting and linking the articles.

Our latest maps with OpenStreetMap data from October 4 are now out. You can press "check for updates" in the app to see them and start downloading them.

With "This Month in CoMaps", we are trying out a new, monthly format to keep folks updated about what's going on with CoMaps.

You can read the September 2026 edition here: https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-09-30/this-month-in-comaps-september-2026/

Why do we regularly update our map files? Because thanks to thousands of OpenStreetMap editors, the maps are constantly getting better, like seen here. Do you contribute to OSM? Then show us some of your own favorite before/after map images in CoMaps!

And if you don't have any before/after images at hand: You still got some days to map before we start the next map generation 😉

#OpenStreetMap

Our latest maps with OpenStreetMap data from September 27 are now out. You can press "check for updates" in the app to see them and start downloading them.

Hi, I'm starting to try to use CoMaps in the Philippines, I'm realizing that there isn't much detail yet here. Not many restaurants, landmarks, etc. Is this due to lacking underlying OpenMaps data?

Hi everyone, big fan of the app.

I was wanting to ask about the subway view, is it only for subways?

I see that obviously the Glasgow Subway is included, which is obvious, but can Light Rail systems be included? I'm thinking about Edinburgh Trams, personally (which is treated more like a metro that goes on the road than a Tram) but also Manchester's Metrolink.

If the above systems are something that would be covered by subway view, would it be okay if I add Edinburgh?

When starting a track recording, is there some way to see the details of the recording while it is still recording? Maybe I just don't know how to but im organic maps you can just click the recording button at the upper right corner and get all the details like length, time, elevation gain loss etc. I would think that's a basic and important thing to see. If I start recording a hike or a run I would want to know how far I have come and how long it took me so far. Does comaps really not have that feature?

Our latest maps with OpenStreetMap data from September 20 are now out. You can press "check for updates" in the app to see them and start downloading them.

#OpenstreetMap

Some of us attended the lovely State of the Map conference in Paris at the end of last month. In this blog post we share how it went and what learned!

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-09-14/comaps-at-state-of-the-map-2026/

Our Release 2026.08.31 is already out on iOS, F-Droid and as APK on Codeberg, including for use with Obtainium etc.

Unfortunately, the Google Play version is still in review, two weeks after submission and two support tickets later.

New features include the display of reviews from @mangroveReviews@mas.to (which you can create e.g. using @MapComplete@en.osm.town), and a new transport modes UI on iOS.

Read more here: https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-08-31/Release-2026.08.31-release-notes/