CoMaps now has more than 7k subscribers across different social media platforms – today reaching 7,777. And the biggest growth is on open-source platforms:
Mastodon - distributed microblogging
Matrix - distributed group messaging
Lemmy - distributed discussion communities
Bluesky - microblogging
Pixelfed - Photos
SimpleX - private messaging
If you have not tried these, check them out!
I downloaded CoMaps.
I wasn’t expecting it to be needing a big download for the area of the map I’m in. Fine I guess. At least it works offline.
Lack of info about traffic or closed roads kind of means I probably won’t really use it for big trips.
Could be useful if I’m out for a walk somewhere new, I guess. Probably depends on how active an area is in Open Street Maps.
Traffic info is in the works and should be ready soon! Not sure if that includes closed roads though
Where does it pull traffic info from?
All requests from the app will go to our own traffic server (Traff Server), where data from several different sources will be compiled, mainly official government sources.
Very cool! It seemed like the sort of thing that would only be possible with google levels of data.
I used to work for a company that pulled publicly available traffic data way before it was a thing on Google Maps. Google actually faked trying to buy the company, they were actually stealing ideas to implement in their product.
Google was already evil 20 years ago…
Looking on OSM a local closed bridge is marked with a note (although that probably doesn’t carry over to routing info anyway), but can’t see that in CoMaps. Not sure whether they include that in the data or not.
Nice to have data that isn’t owned by trillion dollar companies anyway.
OSM discourages including any temporary road closures afaik, they are very particular about that. So it would not be very useful to rely on the little data that exists about it, since it may also not be up to date in many cases.