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0·24 days agoMap apps are unfortunately subject to other regulations than other types of apps for AA
sorry, usually we do but I missed it this time!
Improving it is already an open issue!
It’s because before each download it checks that the map files you’re trying to download are the latest - but we’ve fixed that superfluous toast / notice in the October release!
yes, we hope to do that a bit more regularly going forward!
we hope to do that!
There’s a lot of work going on to improve public transport, but so far it’s still work-in-progress: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/projects/36008
No worries! It all is based on the same data, but then the processing can be quite different (e.g. the calculation of penalties for the routing algorithms goes into the maps during this processing), or which POI types are shown on the maps etc. Converting the raw OSM DB into something usable for mobile apps is quite a heavy processing step 🙂
There’s some duplication - but it’s not that easy: Map applications like CoMaps and OsmAnd make their own choices on which types of data from OSM is included in maps and how it’s displayed, and also how the data structure behind the scenes work. This is necessary to create maps that load fast and work well for route calculations etc. So having them compatible between apps is extremely hard.
Vespucci in contrast is a pure OSM editor, so this just gets the ‘raw’ data from OSM for a given region, as it focuses on only editing/adding data to OSM, but not on end-user search, can’t navigate etc.
For that reason it’s unfortunately not likely that a shared format will emerge, as different OSM data users and apps have different needs!
there is https://rudokemper.com/google-maps-places-to-comaps/ for converting the Google Maps takeout to the GPX!
great name idea! In German the marks you make in books are also called “donkey ears”!
We currently do not have plans to host more nodes ourselves, but i there are Canadian users or organizations that have spare bandwidth and at least ~300 GB of storage that a CoMaps CDN node could use, please get in touch!