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Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app (www.engadget.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 36 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Comaps is available for iphones :3

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/comaps/id6747180809

also for others:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.comaps.google

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    A little confused, is this basically the same thing as Open Street Maps, just in app form?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    Yep it uses a selection of the most important data from OSM because the entire thing would be too huge to keep on your phone. You download the map in sections so region/city based but you can also just get an entire country which will be a few GB.

    It can import/export bookmarks and record and import gpx tracks. Has TTS support and you can even edit things (like opening hours and stuff) if you have an OSM account.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I’ve looked at apps like these and weirdly it’s just map you can search through. There’s no turn by turn directions.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    It very much has routing, route saving, turn by turn instructions, voice instructions and more. Idk what you mean.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I couldn’t get it to work. Is it only in Europe that works?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    I dont use apple devices so i cant test it, but i thought it would be identical to the android experience.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    I tried 4 of these damn things over the past few days 2 were ad filled nonsense. This looks like a reskin of something else I tried. It doesn’t have turn by turn.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Are you sure you are using the app that i linked to? Because you can clearly see in the screenshots on the app store that it has turn by turn instructions.

    Comaps is a fork of organic maps but neither has ads and they are basically identical feature wise.

    Turn by turn only works when you have location turned on of course.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Okay don’t turns out I had to download the maps first and then it kinda works. Voice selection isn’t working right but will likely be fixed eventually. I just need to get used to it. Thanks.

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