Comaps Emerges as an Organic Maps Fork

It is sad to see in discussions like this how ugly human behaviour can be. Many people work together to create something good and meaningful only for a few greedy individuals to exploit it.

I hope that one day, in a distant future, humanity will experience an awakening and finally rise against the destructive traits we inherited from our long-gone ancestors.

Maybe bio-hacking will come to our help...but probably it will make everything worse first.

Related: https://newatlas.com/biology/evolution-modern-life-anthropoc...

It's pretty funny that the first order of business for the fork was to debate a "design lead" role. They decided against and it looks like the app is totally functional https://www.comaps.app/

It is pretty interesting because it is true that design is better solo'd than committee'd. I wonder how open source communities usually solve these issues.

Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453888 (55 comments, 4 months ago)

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908 (206 comments, May 2025)

The article is from June 13, 2025.

I wish them the best. I tried getting off of Google Maps, and it became a safety / quality of life issue to return to it (for United States driving directions). I tried both CoMaps and Organic Maps. CoMaps really struggled to know what address I was referencing for driving directions (and would take minutes to sort out the directions for long trips, a task Google Maps knocks out in about a second with one server query). It also doesn't seem to have the traffic signal data (or has a worse source for it) that Google has access to, and since I live too close to a major city to ignore things like "public event causes massive traffic disruption," I need that traffic signal in my route planning.

That having been said, we could use better solutions than trusting huge megacorps with a task as vital as mapping and directions, so I want them to succeed.

Been using it since, warmly recommended.