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  • A huge thanks to the ~25 folks that joined us for our virtual birthday party yesterday and made it a really great event! 🥳 Covering a range of 14 time zones, it really showed how global our community is. 🌏 Over the course of around 2.5 hours, we were joined by some long-standing CoMaps contributors, active members of the #OpenStreetMap community, and many new faces!

  • The problem is that it becomes a bureaucratic overhead compared to simple donations, as then we'd become a vendor selling stuff for profit!

  • 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 🙂

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    Celebrating CoMaps' first birthday

    www.comaps.app /news/2026-05-12/celebrating-the-first-comaps-birthday/
  • So far it's fully manual, but an optional automatic check might come in the future!

  • 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!

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    CoMaps release 2026.05.06 is out!

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    Making CoMaps future-proof: How we are removing technical debt

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    Join the 1st CoMaps birthday party!

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    We are currently looking for more volunteer iOS developers. Could that be YOU? 🙂

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    Release 2026.04.23 out!

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    CoMaps & Samsung DeX

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    CoMaps on European and Open Source Alternatives

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    CoMaps at the HOT Open Tech meetup

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    Release 2026.04.07 is out

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    Release 2026.03.23 is out

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    A thanks to our hardware donors

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    Routes from Cartes.app to CoMaps

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    Release 2026.03.09 is out!

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    Bikepacking & Hacking around the World

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    International Women's Day

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    CoMaps @ #DIDay

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    Release 2026.02.23 is out!

  • If you have particularly strange routings, feel free to send examples somewhere. As they can be due to OSM errors too, it's always good to have a look on whether the CoMaps routing is having an issue or if the underlying data can be fixed!

  • join the matrix room if you haven't yet, and you'll find some other map-loving folks who'll be there!

  • great name idea! In German the marks you make in books are also called "donkey ears"!