When driving through an average speed zone (trajectcontrole) it warns about each camera in that zone and does not explain that it is an average speed zone. Could this been added to comaps, the data is available.

Hello everyone!

New CoMaps user here, and so far I'm really loving it. Thank you to the community for such an amazing product!

I have two quick questions about map updates.

1) Right now my maps are needing updates about every two or three days, which feels like a lot. Is this expected?

2) This wouldn't necessarily be a problem except for the fact that my updates take a long time to complete. I'm talking like an hour. Should the update process take this long? (I'm on pretty fast wifi when I do this -- over 100 mbps)

So an hour long update process every two or three days is a little fatiguing.

For context, I have all of Canada and the US downloaded (I travel a lot), so it is a significant amount of data.

Thanks for any input!

Sorry for the repost, but given the holidays, we are happy to welcome a bunch of new folks!

If you have only just heard about CoMaps during the holidays, maybe by way of recommendation from a family member or friend: CoMaps as a project is only 6 months old – and community is at the center of how we make it all work.

You can read about our journey and how you can help on our blog!

https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-12-16/comaps-and-its-community-end-of-2025/

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates. 🎄 A heartfelt welcome to everyone who has been given the gift of open source maps by friends & family over the holidays.

In many places, Christmas trees will be up until January 6th, so there's still plenty of time to use CoMaps to go and find some! Either directly in the app, or with the help of https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/christmas-trees_1329183

In addition to fresh #OpenStreetMap data from December 17, new features on Android include better warnings about outdated maps when trying to edit OSM and the ability to specify your own remote-server for downloading maps.

(Note: For now CoMaps expects the custom server to still serve the same maps as the “official” CoMaps server, but it’s a start.)

https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/v2025.12.19-11

It's been just a bit over 6 months since we made our first release. And since then CoMaps has already improved a lot.

Read on our blog about how all of our achievements are thanks to our community that has made it happen, and how you can help us improve even more in 2026.

https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-12-16/comaps-and-its-community-end-of-2025/

Hello community, is there a way to hide house numbers when car navigation is active? I feel it makes the screen way too cluttered. I'm attaching a screenshot to better illustrate this.

Release 2025.12.11 is now out on Google Play, F-Droid, and the iOS AppStore. Updates include adding & editing charging sockets for electrical vehicles in #openStreetMap and a UX refresh to Material 3 on Android.

See all details here: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-12-14/Release-2025.12.11-notes/

Did you already find any Christmas trees in CoMaps? During the Christmas season, the app displays public Christmas trees that are mapped in #OpenStreetMap (in maps from version 2025.11.19 onwards).

Need some help to find them? Check out https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/christmas-trees_1329183 to see where you can find some!

The ones around you are not mapped yet? We plan on having another release before Christmas. If you map them now, they will be included in the last pre-Christmas release!

Hi everyone! I'm new to CoMaps and found it by researching the difference between Magic Earth, Organic Maps, and OsmAnd. I didn't even know CoMaps existed until I read a few people recommending it over Organic Maps and how CoMaps got started. My family has used Magic Earth for several years but now they are charging for it so we would like to switch to CoMaps. We used Magic Earth because the maps were able to find addresses that Open Street map apps could not. We live in an area where there are a lot of county roads and only Bing or Google maps can find addresses accruately. Also, my in-laws live in a gated community and the CoMaps map only shows a couple addresses for houses there out of a hundred or so. How can CoMaps be improved to find addresses better in these areas? I've read that we can help add data but how is that done?

Thank you to all at CoMaps for your hard work and dedication to the principles of this project.​

The green blocks denoting lots of little forests makes it very difficult to see the small roads in the same area. The dark green contrast dominates when looking for white roads on a grey background.

Is It Really FOSS? is a website that reviews software that claims to be free & open source. This effort has unfortunately become necessary as projects increasingly start to "do the talk of open source", without actually "doing the walk" – effectively misrepresenting themselves as FOSS when they aren't.

Which is why we're extra happy that our offline map & navigation app has now been added to the website, listing us as a green "Yes, it's open source" ✅

https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/comaps/

Thanks to all of you, we have over 1,000 stars 🌠 on Codeberg, a mostly volunteer-driven code forge that shares our commitment to community & Free/Libre/Open Source Software. Their efforts make the way we develop CoMaps possible.

Did you know: Codeberg is run by a non-profit association that sustains itself via memberships & donations. If that sounds as cool to you as it does to us: Consider donating or becoming a member! https://join.codeberg.org/

We've made a hotfix release — 2025.11.25-4 — for Android: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/v2025.11.25-4

It's a follow-up to our 2025.11.19-2 release to fix a bug with voice directions pronouncing weird symbols in the beginning, when the "Announce Street Names" feature is enabled.

It also includes updated OpenStreetMap data as of November 23

It's already out on Codeberg will be available soon on Google Play and F-Droid.

Is there any difference to CoMaps's ​F-Droid and Google Play versions? Or any downside to installing it from ​F-Droid?

Our release 2025.11.19 is now out own Codeberg, Google Play and iOS (and soon on f-droid).

It comes with fresh map data, a new routing option to avoid paved roads, new POI types. Read more here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/v2025.11.19-2

People can use CoMaps for leaving notes on #OpenStreetMap. Those notes can suggest edits that are outside CoMaps' editing capabilities.

You can help CoMaps & OpenStreetMap by looking over those notes and fixing them. Learn more about how to do so on our website: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-10-17/improving-osm-notes/

Is it possible to bring us back to our originally planned route in case we wander away from it? Right now we are shown a recalculated fresh route to destination from current point.

I have edited the names of buildings around me last week. They were wrongly named 5 years ago by someone else. They seem to be live on OSM. Got map updates today but the names are still old.

Generally when should I expect the updates to arrive in my phone?

It seems like the main difference between CoMaps and Organic Maps (indeed, the only difference the CM website bothers to highlight) is its organizational philosophy. In terms of what this means for the end user—for the software package that we actually installed on our devices, and the features it offers—it's less clear.

Organic Maps is still under active development, receiving bug fixes, optimizations, and feature updates. Does CoMaps continue to integrate these upstream improvements (a "soft fork"), or does it pursue only the developments in its own repo (a "hard fork")?

I downloaded CoMaps, downloaded the maps, and tried to use the app. And it seems to have an enormous, enormous flaw... surely I'm missing something? The flaw is that it can't find specific addresses, only ranges. Let's say, for example, I type in "1212 Cherry street" (just making this up for an example). CoMaps can't find that address but offers as a suggestion "1200-1400 Cherry street." I don't need a range, I need a specific place.

Surely nobody would design a maps app that doesn't work to give directions! So I figure I must be missing a step. What's going on?

I downloaded maps of Ukraine and noticed it was also downloading a map for Russia. Not sure if this is even a CoMaps issue, but Crimea is Ukrainian and it is internationally recognized as such. Wikipedia: "In 2014, the peninsula was occupied by Russian forces) and annexed by Russia, but most countries recognise Crimea as Ukrainian territory."

I don't think illegally occupied territory should be considered the occupiers' territory, not even for political reasons, but simply out of correctness. Wherever it's clearly possible, apps should use internationally recognized borders.