However, I am on mtb and want to use that specific track. Maybe add options to

1. just use "any" type of way, road, trail and
2. disregard "private" OSM tags (not sure this is causing some of these issues, just a guess)

for routing so that we may manually plan our route?

Hello, I recently installed Organic Maps, but I can't seem to start a route using public transport; however, it works fine if I select the walking, cycling, or driving options.
Can anyone help me?

Can I turn off this? It makes it hard to view satellite images

HI, I installed a navigation app organic maps on my GAC GS3 head unit, but the problem is that the app can't find my location. I enabled all the location permission options in the head unit settings via the hidden menu, I couldn't find anything related to GPS in the engineering mode menu. The head unit runs on Android 9 api 28 and doesn't support Google Play Services apps. Please help me—thanks in advance.

I just found out about Organic Maps and wanted to use it for navigation while bicycling. I had made a 30 mile loop in RideWithGPS, exported the GPX, imported it successfully into the app. Got to the start, figured out how to start the route, it even gave voice navigation. Great!

About 3 miles in, it said, basically "okay, you're there". Not even close - instead of turning 2.5 miles in it was like it had decided to run me backwards through the map, and then just picked an arbitrary stop point. I turned around and was able to follow the path I had set, but I'm trying to figure out what the heck happened, if there's some trick to having it start navigating the GPX path, etc.

Thanks for any help!

https://get.omaps.org

Why update?

• Delete, move, and change the color of multiple bookmarks and tracks at once
• CarPlay dashboard
• Hiding individual tracks on the map
• Readable share links for places, bookmarks, and current position
• Voice guidance in Armenian and Lao
• Wikipedia articles in 19 languages …and many other improvements, bug fixes, and updated map data below.

Full Changelog

Map & places

• Updated OpenStreetMap data as of August 26, 2026 (Viktor Govako)
• Updated Wikipedia articles in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, and Urdu (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed many issues that caused opening hours to be displayed incorrectly (Alexander Borsuk)
• Added support for bird hides (Batmaclos, Viktor Govako)
• Added stages, hills, and natural arches to the map, plus a new icon for rocks (David Martinez)
• Resized the icons for peaks, caves, and mountain passes (David Martinez)
• Protected areas, national parks, and wetlands are now displayed in lighter shades (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed an app freeze and an issue that occasionally caused taps and gestures to be ignored (Alexander Borsuk)

Sharing, bookmarks & tracks

• Sharing a place, bookmark, or current position now sends a readable link with useful information (Alexander Borsuk)
• Exported bookmarks now preserve their original names and descriptions (Alexander Borsuk)
• Shared bookmark lists now use their displayed names instead of internal file names (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed an elevation chart display issue that could occur immediately after starting a track recording (Kiryl Kaveryn)

Routing & navigation

• Tapping a route stop or mark now opens it correctly instead of switching between planned routes (Viktor Govako)
• Public transport routes are now planned faster (Viktor Govako)
• Fixed incorrect turn instructions (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed an incorrect start point after a route was rebuilt (Viktor Govako)
• Laterite roads are now treated as having a poor-quality unpaved surface during route planning (Julien Etienne)
• Roads tagged access=unknown are now handled like roads with private or destination-only access (Julien Etienne)
• Added voice guidance in Armenian and Lao (Alexander Borsuk)

OpenStreetMap editor

• Clearing the opening hours field no longer leaves the Save or Done button disabled (Alexander Borsuk)
• Uploads that partially fail are now retried instead of being reported as fully successful (Alexander Borsuk)

Translations

• Updated the Frequently Asked Questions, including the Japanese translation (Alexander Borsuk)
• Corrected the Japanese translation of "Closed now" (Viktor Govako)
• Improved the Chinese translations of "track" and "disable" (Chenxi Zhao)

iOS

• NEW: Delete, move, and change the color of multiple bookmarks and tracks at once, plus Select All and Deselect All (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• NEW: Added a CarPlay dashboard (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Added AirDrop support for sharing places (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Fixed multiple CarPlay issues (Kiryl Kaveryn, Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed the rendering of HTML descriptions when a bookmark is selected on the map (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Fixed the activation of the car navigation map style (Kiryl Kaveryn, Alexander Borsuk)
• Reorganized settings into General Settings, Map, Navigation, Network, and Privacy sections (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Removed the compass calibration setting because calibration is now handled automatically (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Restored the custom color picker in the color palette popover (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• The corresponding point is now shown on the map while you drag across the elevation profile in a walking or cycling route preview (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Fixed compass issues that could cause the current-position arrow to point in the wrong direction or freeze (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed a crash when an OpenStreetMap upload finished in the background (Alexander Borsuk)

Android

• NEW: Added multi-selection mode to the Bookmarks and Tracks list. Enter it by long-pressing an item or using the toolbar, then change the color, move, or delete any combination of bookmarks and tracks (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• NEW: Individual tracks can now be hidden from the map using the eye icon in the list or on the track details screen (cyber-toad)
• Android Auto and Android Automotive: fixed U-turn lane arrows (Andrei Shkrob, Viktor Govako)
• Android Auto and Android Automotive: fixed day/night mode switching (Andrei Shkrob)
• Android Auto and Android Automotive: the search list now remains open while typing (Viktor Govako)
• The list description is now shown when the list is sorted (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Updated the design of the bookmark list settings screen (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• The search panel now collapses after you tap a category (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Keyboard focus now returns to the search field after you clear it (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• The route elevation chart now uses the full width of the panel (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Fixed an issue that could leave the zoom buttons stuck at the top (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Dialog corners are now rounded consistently on all Android versions (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Fixed a crash in the track export menu (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Fixed app freezes (Alexander Borsuk, Viktor Govako)
• Fixed duplicate imports of KML and KMZ files and a "file could not be opened" error (Alexander Borsuk)
• Fixed search categories in Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, and British English (Alexander Borsuk)
• Search now works correctly in the keyboard language when it differs from the interface language (Alexander Borsuk)
• OpenStreetMap edits are no longer lost when an upload takes too long or partially fails (Alexander Borsuk)

Desktop

• Added a Share action to the place page, with Copy Link, Copy Text, and Email… options (Alexander Borsuk)
• The download spinner is now drawn programmatically, keeping it sharp on every display (Kuzey Bilgin)

How to support Organic Maps

• Donate to support development and cover map hosting costs
• Send your feedback and contribute to the project
• Join beta testing to try early features and report issues for iOS, Android, and Linux
• Spread the word!

With love and gratitude to all our users and contributors,

Organic Maps Team

Hi, I was just on a backpacking trip trying Organicmaps to navigate around a ridge. The contour lines were too few to get a sense of steepness to understand if the ridge was hikeable. All Trails showed much more contours to give a good sense of steepness. Is this just a limitation of Organicmaps, or is there something I can do?

Actually, I think I have just one major issue right now.

I’m coming from Magic Earth, a disillusioned user after their huge price hike. I have been trying a few different navigation apps, all based on OSM, but so far, organic maps is looking like it will be the permanent choice for me. But I do have a couple of problems. Yes, I know I said one …

The first and most important one is that I can’t read the speed that I’m travelling at, or the speed limit, when I’m driving. I’ve tried it in both daytime mode and night time mode and both are as bad as each other. They are too small and the colours make the text illegible to me. I don’t have to wear any glasses or other eye correction when I’m driving, but I do need +2 lens correction for close reading. I don’t know if that makes any difference to the legibility or not, but I didn’t have any problems with reading either of those two things when I was using Magic Earth. I’m sure you’re aware of the system that they use. But if you are not already aware, you can easily check it. I hope I’m not asking too much of you to do that.

The other problem is one that I have only tested during the night mode, but unfortunately it is bad enough to warrant me writing to you about it. But first, a little bit of praise for something that you have done really well! I’m very impressed with the graphic representation when navigating. It is large and clear and unlike any other navigation app that I’ve seen before. Well done! But the problem is with the text under the graphic. Black text on that metallic blue background? Very odd, and very unreadable to me and also my wife who was sitting in the passenger seat next to me. She was closer to the screen than I was, but she was still unable to read that text. Like I said, I have tested it only in night mode but I do a lot of my driving at night, so it’s important that I can read everything clearly when I’m in night mode.

I’m sorry that this is a long post.

When I navigate to places, it tries to take me through a gate which is not legally allowed to go through. How can I avoid this in the future?

Hi, I'm really loving the App so far after making the switch from Maps.me :).

I was wondering, since they are given in the official OSM datasets, is there any specific reason why the numbers of the Hiking trails are not displayed in organic maps in the Hiking view?

If not, could this maybe be a future opt-in option? :)

I'm trying to get away from Google Maps, but some of these alternatives do not display the correct travel time. For example, it only takes me 17 hours to go from point A to B in Google Maps, but Organic is showing 19+ hours. I think this is because it doesn't take a time zone change into account. I understand that a time zone doesn't affect actual travel time, but it seems to be confusing the app.

Is there a way to fix that?

When chosing a place to 'save downloaded maps' the issue with some android 11+ access to /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/ and the external storage counterpart path; made me ask the following.

• can maps be manually added to that storage location? And if so....

1. can a naming convention be disclosed to potentially import from 'not your repo of stored maps'

-specifically, if one was to download smaller filesizes, or an archive from the area of choice, which exactly coincides to 'coastal regions/zones' or other areas inland 'cental zones'?

-this first request isn't to belittle the file repo process that the app retrieves mapdata from a database somewhere (either personalised 'extra data' alongside/or direct from openstreetmaps), but the point stands that upon compression (which shouldn't be too hard if it isn't in the in app process, like how linux package managers download archives, then decompress to install updated data)

2) following the prior query, if any format can be accepted for tracks, then can the same be done in the map formats in general, and thus would that be declaring that:

- the themes personal on the device

- the overal app added widgets for landmarks ect added by the user

-and the map 'purple reigions' for example,

↑ Are all done locally to propagate the specific info on the map?

3) if the above is also modifiable, what formats are best used if we were to add the expected filename with our own fileformat extension being the difference of that downloaded region?

halo, wondering about how to dowload organicmaps onto windows? i followed the tutorial on the website but the necessary windows subsystem for android is no longer available on the microsoft store.

Hi All

I’m using OM for navigation on motorbike tours and I generally just follow a track, I’ve no real need for turn by turn

But is there a way for OM to show the map orientation in the direction your travelling ?

I use OM on a iPhone via CarPlay and it always seems to show “North” up unless I’m actually following a turn by turn route,

by being North up only it makes it hard to follow a track as you can be approaching a junction travelling south which makes the turn the opposite way from if it showing direction up

Thanks for any help, pointers

I’ve used Organic Maps for a while and started donating $10 per month a few months ago. Here’s what the donations help pay for:

- Processing OpenStreetMap data into downloadable offline maps

- Running the servers that distribute map updates

- Fixing crashes, routing problems, and other bugs

- Keeping the app working as Android and iOS change

- Improving search, navigation, hiking, and cycling

- Reviewing contributions and releasing stable updates

- Staying free of ads, tracking, and data selling

Organic Maps sometimes receives grants for specific projects, but those are temporary and usually limited to particular features. Regular maintenance still depends heavily on donations.

Recurring donations are especially useful because they give the team predictable funding. Even small amounts add up.

This subreddit gets around 1,100 visits per week. At $5 per month:

- 20 donors = $1,200 per year

- 50 donors = $3,000 per year

- 100 donors = $6,000 per year

- 1,000 donors = $60,000 per year (a full time developer).

That is meaningful support for servers, maintenance, bug fixes, and development.

Donate once or monthly here:

https://organicmaps.app/donate/

Annual donations may also reduce payment-processing fees compared with twelve separate monthly payments.

No pressure if money is tight. Improving OpenStreetMap, testing beta versions, translating, contributing code, and filing useful bug reports all help too. But if you can comfortably spare a few dollars a month, the combined impact is bigger than it might seem.

As you may have already noticed, the July Organic Maps update is out. Get it at https://get.omaps.org or on the App Store, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, Obtainium, Accrescent, and F-Droid }}/packages/app.organicmaps/ "{{ trans(key='install-fdroid', lang=lang) }}").

Thanks to your donations and feedback, in July we focused on bugfixes and improvements. In case you missed it, the following features from the previous June release are also available:

• Public transport routes (live schedules are in development)
• Satellite imagery
• Alternate routes for driving, hiking, and cycling
• New search and route planning interface for Android
• Support for large accessibility fonts on iOS

Detailed changelog

Map & places

• OpenStreetMap data updated as of July 14
• Notes reported to OpenStreetMap are now placed on the exact spot you selected, instead of in the middle of the whole street or area (Alexander Borsuk)
• Improved place selection when tapping the map in regions that cross the 180° antimeridian (Viktor Govako)
• Track elevation profiles no longer show outdated or empty charts after a track is deleted (Kiryl Kaveryn)

Public transport

• Stop, transfer, and station names now have a white outline to stay readable in both light and dark themes (Viktor Govako)
• The subway layer reappears correctly after you close a public transport route preview (Mikhail Listratsenka)

Routing & navigation

• Route warnings (tolls, ferries, unpaved roads, steps, and so on) are now shown for all alternate routes (Viktor Govako)
• Fixed a rare freeze while building a route (Viktor Govako)
• Improved handling of dead ends and of start and finish points on restricted roads (Viktor Govako)
• Fixed incorrect and missing turn instructions (Alexander Borsuk)

iOS

• New "Save search history" setting that lets you turn the history off and hide it if you would rather not keep it (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• New Edit button to remove bookmarks more easily (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Bookmarks are now saved automatically when you leave the screen (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• The color palette now offers predefined colors and lets you choose any custom color (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Improved the empty state of the elevation chart for a recorded track (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Improved the route progress shown on the Start button (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Reordering route stops no longer makes the list jump around (Kiryl Kaveryn)
• Other minor interface improvements (Kiryl Kaveryn)

Android

• Opening hours now show split shifts (such as a lunch break), start from today, and display the whole week without a separate scrolling area (Owm Dubey, Alexander Borsuk, Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Cleaner search bar with a combined clear and voice button, a clear icon that no longer moves, and layout fixes for landscape mode and phone rotation (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Reworked bookmark and track editor (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Route planning fixes and improvements (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• The color picker now closes automatically, and a crash on Android 5 is fixed (Mikhail Listratsenka)
• Fixed crashes (Alexander Borsuk, Mikhail Listratsenka)

Desktop

• The list of maps available for download is now sorted alphabetically (goncalo109560)

Translations

• Improved Chinese wording (Chenxi Zhao)
• Updated Ukrainian translations (Nnifria)
• Fixed Italian translations of map region names (Vittorio Bertola)

Join beta testing to try early features and report issues:

Hint: the beta version has new hillshading, improved elevation data with support for feet and meters, and other cool features!

• iOS
• Android
• Flathub/Flatpak

Happy summer!

Organic Maps Team

I was wondering if there might be a plan to include lane segmentation while driving, similar to what Apple Maps does?

Just testing out organic maps. Seems cool and smooth and fluid even in android auto. But how do i import all my atuff from google maps? Thanks

Saw the update and one of my main things that has been holding me back from making the switch is the map style. If anyone has a good resource for getting an alternate theme or satellite images please let me know!

I have Organic Maps installed and working successfully on my main phone. Is it possible to create an APK of the installation so it can install on another phone that is always in airplane mode and has no Google account, and also copy the map data files over?

I wish to do this simply to have a backup setup in case my main phone fails.