The latest version of Comaps, available from f-droid, now supports displaying user reviews, bringing it a big step closer to being a viable alternative to Google Maps.

Reviews are sourced from mangrove.reviews, and are open data licensed under creative commons. As Comaps is the first major app to support displaying the reviews they are still a bit lacking in numbers. Feel free to help change that!

It's not possible to review places from Comaps directly: a link to add reviews will be added in the next version. For now, the best way to review places is to find them on MapComplete (where restaurants and cafés/pubs are listed separately).

This is the first step towards review integration in comaps, and they are still working on features such as incorporating reviews into search results. So it'll keep getting better, but for now seeing scores and reading reviews works great. As a bonus all reviews are available offline.

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[–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Yeeeeessssss! Great news! Thanks for sharing!

It drives me mad that google was built on users sharing their experiences and data all for google to keep it for themselves. Very excited to see how the open mapping community develops in the coming years! Will definitely help!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Yeah man I used to feel good about being a "Local Guide" and reviewing businesses in my community/uploading photos to Google maps. Now it feels like I did free labor for one of the biggest companies in the world lol.

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