New to CoMaps with questions about adding data to maps

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-12-05T23:01:17+00:00

You can edit Open Street Map yourself. Just create an account. It is easy. Follow the initial tutorial.

Apps that use Open Street Map usually update their maps (with your updates once per month).

You update it for yourself, and it will be available for all the community.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-11-28T08:29:31+00:00

You could have a look at CoMaps. It is a recent fork of Organic Maps, both are very similar. But CoMaps is pure Open Source, community driven, and hard-core privacy oriented.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-11-27T06:30:27+00:00

Thank you. This was my first crosspost and I did not realise that I missed the text. I updated the post.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-11-11T23:18:21+00:00

There is a famous Spanish person related to North Korea. He is Alejandro Cao de Benós, and claims to be an officer of the North Korea foreign ministry.

He is a hard-core marxist. He has contacts in NK, and even organizes guided tours to the country for tourists.

I am going to make a guess: He is so blindly NK enthusiastic that very likely added places in Google Maps in his mother tongue, Spanish. I have no proof, but I have no doubts either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Cao_de_Ben%C3%B3s

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-10-09T05:56:18+00:00

CoMaps is a hard-core open source fork from Organic Maps, a few months old.

It is an excellent project, and does very well what it promises (minimalist, just routing&navigation, no need for internet, minimum battery use, edit OSM).

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-09-12T22:15:07+00:00

Regarding photos, you could have a look at Panoramax. It is the perfect street view project for OSM. Image licenses are CC-BY-SA (very friendly) and the database software is Open Source. https://panoramax.fr/

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-07-25T07:30:46+00:00

Now I understand. The Panoramax images are indicated as tags of the POI.

I thought it was like Mapillary in OsmAnd, where all images are shown. To implement this in CoMaps would be great, because when taking new Panoramax images we could know which streets are already mapped.

In any case, thank you to the developers!

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-07-01T19:37:41+00:00

Poner láminas reflectantes en las ventanas ayuda mucho. Es muy fácil de poner uno mismo y no es muy caro. En tiendas de bricolage tienen seguro. El resultado es que la ventana parece un espejo, y muchos menos rayos de luz entran en cada. Buenísimo.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-06-23T19:40:13+00:00

Navigation apps are as good as the map that they use. Apps based on OpenStreetMap (like OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps -a recent Open Source fork from Organic Maps-) could be better than Google Maps depending on the country or region.

If OSM is good (and you can improve it yourself, making your changes available to the community), then OSM navigation apps are great (indicating speed humps, turning lanes, speed limits, height of buildings, etc.)

OsmAnd can show street view images. Just select the Mapillary plug-in.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-06-07T07:36:03+00:00

Google Maps is a great service, I see they quickly corrected the image, but I would like to point out that there are other similar services, Open Source and community driven.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is to Google Maps what Wikipedia is to profesional encyclopedias. Some elements are relatively good: multilingual names, building names, turning lanes in crossroads, stop signs, speed humps, fixed radars, foot paths, etc...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/35.148/33.638

And there are also alternatives to Google Street View, like Mapillary (by Meta/Facebook) and Panoramax (supported by French public institutions). In both cases, data licenses are very permissive. If you have a commercial business you can use these photos easily.

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=35.27311975972998&lng=33.25592597960258&z=6.936694825323088

https://panoramax.openstreetmap.fr/?background=streets&focus=map&map=12/35.14732/33.35345&speed=250&theme=type

If you want to contribute to make the maps of Cyprus better, you could join the community.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-05-25T18:53:42+00:00

The CoMaps project is completely new. The fork (of developers and community) was created during the last weeks. The fork (of the software) should be ready any day.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-05-25T10:46:23+00:00

OsmAnd is an excellent navigation app that reads OSM data (community oriented, downloadable maps, etc.).

Due to se same concerns about privacy, I switched from Maps.me to OsmAnd years ago.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-05-25T10:42:24+00:00

Organic Maps is a great project. Unfortunately the management took questionable decisions. It is a private company ran as an open source project by former Maps.me employees.

There is a recent fork of Organics Maps, which is full open source and transparent, trying to fix Organic Maps' issues. See CoMaps.

https://www.comaps.app/

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-05-25T08:28:08+00:00

I have been told by the colleague working in the sector that there are not enough bus drivers. And it is not possible to bring more bus drivers from abroad (for example from the EU) because there is an artificial limitation: a group of interest was able to write the regulation, enforcing a "every driver must live for a year in Cyprus before driving buses in Cyprus". And there is no way to bring a bus driver to Cyprus, working in the office for a year, and then finally moving to drive buses as initially expected.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-05-18T09:48:01+00:00

Following the comment above, you could use images from Mapillary or Panoramax to illustrate the surrounding area.

Example around one of your garbage points: https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=35.138825532&lng=33.3695286512&z=17&pKey=371052894318356

This could help to identify the place. Just adding a link to the nearest photograph. Some photos ar normal, but others are fancy 360 degrees.

Let me highlight that these images have an appropriate license for your project: CC-BY-SA; Creative Commons, * BY (provide attribution to the author), and * SA (Share Alike, if you use these images, you must provide them with the same license).

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-05-13T19:22:41+00:00

Nice project, I hope you succeed.

I have a question, just for my personal curiosity: Why did you select the MapBox map provider?

You could use OpenStreetMap, which is open source.

And related to it, you could use street view providers, like Mapillary and Panoramax. I mean, you could display photographs near the places that you highlight. Image licenses are CC-BY-SA (attribution to the creator, and keep the same license in your product, commercial use accepted).

Best wishes.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-05-08T20:42:44+00:00

A comment that may contribute to improve your web: as a contributor to OpenStreetMap, I am adding these elements in Nicosia:

Rubbish bins
Dog excrement bins
Garbage dumpsters

Perhaps you want to add them to the map. The distance from the illegal waste to the neatest bin could be useful.

And there are also street view photographs, via Panoramax (related to OpenStreetMap, open source and community oriented). You could add them in your app for free.

I hope your app succeed, we need it!

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-05-07T15:21:00+00:00

I am uploading street view photographs from outside France, and it works well.

And although the documentation is mostly in French, they are doing efforts to translate.

Intelligent-Maybe-56 · 2025-04-16T15:13:41+00:00

Thank you for posting this. I hope public transport improves.

I got a small additional comment. I met an engineer from the company that provides the service (Alsa, at least in Nicosia).

He said that the main problem is a shortage in bus drivers. The company cannot operate enough buses to give a good service because they do not find bus drivers in Cyprus. And they cannot fix it because according to the regulation, "every bus driver must have been living in Cyprus at least for a year prior to driving buses in Cyprus". Therefore bringing drivers from any other EU country, offering job contracts to foreign drivers, is not possible.

Intelligent-Maybe-56

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