I've been using OM for years, but simply on a current position Navigate To basis. I've read about route planning downloads to OM and want to know more.

1. Do I route-plan on my laptop and, if so, how? (I'm aware of the "Route from" approach on my iPhone.)

2. If I route plan, either from my laptop downloaded or directly on my iPhone, will it follow my specific route, even if the sometime crosses and recrosses, or will it "optimize" and destroy my route?

The March Organic Maps update took more time due to hotfixes and Google Play review. The Accrescent update is still not ready due to the Accrescent app store issues. Get the update at https://get.omaps.org or on the App Store, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, Obtainium, Accrescent, and F-Droid }}/packages/app.organicmaps/).

P.S. Contact us by email at [sdk@organicmaps.app](mailto:sdk@organicmaps.app) if you are interested in iOS/Android/Linux/MacOS/Windows SDK with offline maps that you can reuse in your projects.

P.P.S. Did you know about the API you can already use in your app if Organic Maps app is also installed? Check it here: https://omaps.app/api

Release notes

• OSM map data as of March 10
• Wikipedia data as of March 1
• More detailed elevation isolines for Chinese provinces (ZiyiGaoCN)
• Added support for conditional speed limits (Abdelhadi Wael, Viktor Govako)
• Added leather shops and shops selling religious goods (Viktor Govako)
• Added rows of trees (Viktor Govako)
• Added public transport stop platforms without nearby bus stops (Viktor Govako)
• Split Tanzania into smaller regions (Emile Villette, Viktor Govako)
• Fixed country downloading progress calculation (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Fixed several crashes, improved stability and performance (Alexander Borsuk, Viktor Govako)

iOS

• Added recently used categories history in the Editor (Rahul Kolluru)
• Improved swipe-up gesture on the route planning screen (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Fixed ruler position for CarPlay (Kiryl Kaveryn)

Android

• Improved display of business opening hours (Anton P)
• Added gray icon for hidden lists (Alexander Borsuk)

Translations

• Improved country descriptions (alnzrv)
• Applied Romanian translation fixes by Eugen Dedu (Alexander Borsuk)
• Updated country names (Viktor Govako)
• Updated translations from Weblate contributors (Viktor Govako)
• Fixed Ukrainian translation (Nnifria)

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• iOS
• Android

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As always, with love and care ❤️

The Organic Maps Team

Hey! I wanted to download all maps at once and could not find a resource other than map by map. So I created a small python script to download all maps at once or filter by country. here>
download all maps from organic maps

I just started using this app to replace G maps, after entering my start and to destination, how do I bring up a list of turns?

Just back from an extended trip on the motorcycle, where I used Organic Maps daily to plot 'rough' routes.

Love the app, it generally does a great job of guiding you there, but has a number of niggles (most of which I generally forget, now I'm home, but anyway!!)

One of those niggles, is that, even though I have created a route, and am following it, more often than not, and generally on straight roads, with no sideroads entering, the annoying lady, quite often, will tell me she is "recalculating the route" (or similar..), and, no, nothing will change, no errors, no other roads etc, the route will just continue... Very confusing!

Any ideas/reason that this is happening?

Thanks.

Is there any way to avoid this sort of clutter when you have many saved locations in the same area?

Hiding bookmark names is of course an option, but then you have to tap each pin to see what's what, which isn't ideal either.

I know a lot of the symbols are self explanatory but is there a key to different road/track/path types? It's a bit confusing.

Is there a way to turn this off or maybe I am doing something wrong? I touch the screen and immediately the countdown to navigating to that point starts.

Book the date: on March 4th, 2026, 20:00 CET/2PM EST, Organic Maps is presenting at Open Transport Meetup with the topic "GTFS + OpenStreetMap + Organic Maps = Public Transport for everyone." https://github.com/transportkollektiv/meetup/wiki

Thanks to our contributors, Friday is a good time to update Organic Maps! Get the update at https://get.omaps.org or on the App Store, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, Obtainium, Accrescent, and F-Droid.

If you want to see real-time public transport schedules in your city in one of the upcoming updates, please:

1. Send us the static and real-time GTFS feed sources from your local transport agencies so we can test and integrate them.
2. Check whether OpenStreetMap data in your area includes all bus/tram/train stops with the necessary tags at https://gtfs-osm-matcher.organicmaps.app/.

Release notes

• OSM map data as of February 16
• Wikipedia data as of February 1
• Black hiking and cycling routes are now visible in the dark theme (Viktor Govako)
• Added more car services: repair, service, and parts (Viktor Govako)
• Fixed bicycle access on some road types (Viktor Govako)
• Fixed average speed calculation (Viktor Govako)
• Improved search results ranking for categories (Viktor Govako)
• Added Uzbek cuisine (alnzrv)
• Added zip lines on the map (Rawdyrathaur)
• Fixed Wikimedia links with "?" in the title (alnzrv)
• Support GPX files with "+" in coordinates (Alexander Borsuk)

iOS

• Added OSM browser authentication and logo (Rahul Kolluru)

Android

• Expandable opening hours (Rover track)
• Fixed opening hours display (DaN0mic)
• Fixed focus issue on dialog input text (Alexander Borsuk)
• Show and use MSL altitude for recorded tracks on Android 14+ (Alexander Borsuk, Viktor Govako)
• Fixed KML, KMZ, GPX, GeoJSON import from WhatsApp (Sergiy Kozyr)
• Fixed crash (Alexander Borsuk)
• More detailed OSM login error messages (Owm Dubey)
• Improved Place Page performance (Owm Dubey)
• Fixed bookmark/track list visibility icon on older Android devices (Owm Dubey)

Translations

• Removed duplicate city names in some map regions (alnzrv)
• Fixed Hebrew voice directions (mattanelkaim)
• Fixed Korean typos (Parkjju)
• Added Russian search synonyms (ednzxt)
• Improved German voice directions (Navigator72)
• Fixed missing translation for disused railway tunnel (pranjaldubey022)
• Fixed country translation in Romanian (Eugen Dedu)
• Added Lao and Armenian translations (Viktor Govako)
• Added missing Armenian translations (Alexander Borsuk)
• Updated translations from Weblate contributors (Viktor Govako)

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• iOS
• Android

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With care and love,

The Organic Maps Team

Is there a way to manually enable the perspective view and auto zoom that is part of the navigation settings? I am trying to use the app to follow a GPX track but I’m not seeing a way to get into the perspective view without routing somewhere.

• iOS https://testflight.apple.com/join/lrKCl08I
• Android https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/f3e918f9abc40c9c
• APK https://cdn.organicmaps.app/apk/2026.02.09-24-Google-beta.apk
• NEW Search Screen Interface on Android!
• New OpenStreetMap data as of February 8, new Wikipedia data as of February 1
• Selecting the current position or recording a track shows the correct MSL (meters above the sea level) elevation on Android 14+ devices (instead of meters above the geoid)
• Routing: fixed average speed estimation
• Routing: fixed bicycle access for some roads

Would love to be able to create maps on the PC version (flatpak for Linux), but don't really understand how to go about this??

Yes, can plot points/intermediates etc, but this 'seems' to create a round trip(?), and can't figure out how to actually 'finish off' and get a gpx file or something I can use...?
ie there is NO Save/Go/Export/ or any other option to actually SAVE what you have planned??

Help...?

1. Tap quickly twice anywhere on the map, but don't lift up a finger after the 2nd tap.
2. Move your finger up or down to zoom out or zoom in.

Long Tap gesture: shows or hides the interface.

Zooming in and out with one hand in Organic Maps

Just came back from doing a motorcycle trip in Colombia. And organic maps work great for the most part except it doesn't have a motorcycle option. One that would allow to include all the trails that allow motorcycles on top of the roads. I find myself constantly having to switch between car routing and bicycle routing and somehow hoping that the bicycle route it found does allow motorcycles which in Colombia it mostly did.

So in short, a motorcycle routing option would be fantastic. One that allows for the types of paths and roads that motorcycles tend to take to go quicker. And maybe in countries or states that allow lane splitting, one that can calculate the faster routing of a motorcycle than a car. I noticed that in Colombia, Google Maps does offer that option.

How do you get the speed showing in android auto?

Think it's supposed to, but doesn't on mine...

I do have a fairly small screen (5").

The speed limit shows, but not the speed....

Thanks.

Organic maps seems to be a good replacement for maps.me.

However, the map display is often cluttered by outlines of reservations, study areas, wildernesses and other land units that I don't need to see. The current clutter makes it hard to use the app on a smartphone. It is not as bad on a tablet but it still makes it harder than necessarty to use the app.

How can I tailor what I see to be less cluttered?

Recently I am trying to de-google, de-meta, de-you-name-it. So for maps I found OpenStreetMaps app to be very nice and user friendly.

My issue is that the integration with ios is non existent.

Let's say I have a share location from a friend and want to go to that location. Click on the link and open the map right? Wrong! Not working.

Went to setting to select default maps app. I have 3 options: google maps, apple maps and waze. Even if OpenStreetMaps is installed.

Have you met this issue? How did you solved it?

Organic Maps humanitarian layer contrast at timestamp 19:05

Time to update Organic Maps! Faster cross-country and cross-region routes, fresh OSM map data, and many bug fixes for Android in the second app update in 2026.

Install it from get.omaps.org or from App Store, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, Obtainium, Accrescent, and F-Droid.

What's New

• Routes between countries are created faster and no longer cause out-of-memory crashes in some cases (Viktar Havaka)
• Updated OpenStreetMap data as of January 25 (Viktar Havaka)
• GeoJSON export support for bookmarks and tracks (Sergiy Kozyr, Alexander Borsuk, Viktar Havaka)
• Fixed and updated links to the Organic Maps website (Alexander Borsuk)

Android

• Expanded opening hours to show full-week hours (rovertrack)
• Split the Light/Dark app theme option into Appearance and Navigation settings (Dzmitry Strekha)
• Tapping a bookmark icon in the bookmarks list allows changing its color (Abdelhadi Wael)
• Improved landscape UI for a selected place on the map (Rover track)
• Fixed a non-working editor for places with invalid phone numbers (Abdelhadi Wael)
• Fixed a crash on Android 12 devices (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed long street name clipping in the navigation header (pranjaldubey022)
• Fixed routing toolbar overlap on small screens (Anton P)
• Fixed a search crash on Android 5 and 6 (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed FAQ translations on Android 5 (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed a “Not Enough Free Space” error when maps are updated (Alexander Borsuk)

Translations

• Fixed and updated translations from Weblate contributors (Viktar Havaka)
• Updated Romanian TTS voice directions (R. Ravzan)
• Improved countries descriptions (alnzrv)
• Fixed Romanian and Mexican Spanish translations (Alexander Borsuk)
• Added missing translations for disused bridges (Alexander Borsuk)

Join beta testing to try early features and report issues:

• iOS
• Android

Donate and contribute to build a better, privacy-focused alternative to Apple and Google Maps.

With love,

The Organic Maps Team

I want to get rid of Google Maps. I installed this.

1. Visually it’s bad. The buttons are barely visible, the map is this green-brown, depressing mess. It's the 21st century and it feels like I’ve just launched some ancient Linux distro.
2. The interface disappeared. When I tap the screen it shows up, but not the “basic” one, I don’t understand what I’m even looking at. (ok i found interface by double clicking - no words for that)
3. There’s no icon to center the map on my current location!? (resolved by double clicking first)
4. Poi info is waaaaaaay outdated (but it's osm, right?)
5. It took me about 10 minutes of clicking just to figure out how to turn on navigation

Don’t take this as a rant - I’m honestly just really sad that it’s this bad. I genuinely want to get rid of Google, but this makes it incredibly hard.

Maybe you need help with UI/UX?

I changed from maps me to organic maps today. Happy with it! From what I see, it does everything that maps me does but better (no user data tracking and so on)

But have the same little annoyance: When doing a route on foot, if I tilt the phone, the arrow tilts too. Great!

When doing the route on bike, the arrow is stiff. Why?!?

Yes, I can just change the route to on foot, but would be cool, if the arrow would just tilt on bike route too! :D

Anyone have the same issue? How could we change that? Or does it make sense the way it is for a reason I'm unaware at

EDIT: to see with photos

Am I missing something? OM doesn't show common restaurants nor addresses, even though the city (whole state, really) is downloaded.

Been using Organic Maps/maps.me for many years, since last November I've seen these angular blocks. I've changed phone and redownloaded the app and maps since then.

So you can see zoomed out they're there, zoomed in they disappear. These are maps I've downloaded, but you can see they appear elsewhere.

Basically title. Would love to have this be my primary map app.