Organic Maps: Offline Map 4+
Navigate, Travel, Hike, Bike
Organic Maps
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Please fix all map issues at OpenStreetMap.org, and let us know about any bugs. Your feedback motivates our small team of enthusiasts to improve the app.
• Detailed offline maps with places that don't exist on other maps
• Cycling routes, hiking trails, and walking paths
• Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes
• Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance
• Fast offline search
• Bookmark everything you need, import and share KML, KMZ, GPX
• Dark mode to protect your eyes
• … and many other features!
Organic Maps is pure and organic, made with love:
• Respects your privacy
• Saves your battery
• No unexpected mobile data charges
Organic Maps is free from trackers and other bad stuff:
• No ads
• No tracking
• No data collection
• No phoning home
• No annoying registration
• No mandatory tutorials
• No noisy email spam
• No push notifications
• No crapware
• No pesticides
At Organic Maps, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right:
• Organic Maps is an indie community-driven project
• The code is open-sourced
• The maps data is taken from OpenStreetMap, also community-driven project
• We protect your privacy from Big Tech’s prying eyes
• Stay safe no matter wherever you are
Reject surveillance, embrace your freedom, and support the community.
Give Organic Maps a try!
What’s New
Version 2024.05.04
• Transitioned to the new OpenStreetMap authentication mechanism — all authenticated OSM users must re-login
• Updated OpenStreetMap data to April 29
• Implemented sorting of bookmarks and tracks by name
• Resolved the issue of isolines reminders appearing on top of other dialogs
• Corrected the layout of the circular downloading progress bar in selected POIs
• Fixed the icons for radio on/off buttons
• Aligned RTL languages properly in the bottom menu
• Adjusted the location of the "more" menu in bookmark lists
• Added default email client support to the about menu
• Expanded feature types that could be added to OSM, including marketplaces, taxi stands, kiosks, wilderness huts, garden centers, historic aircraft, cannons, boundary stones, tombs, etc.
• Indicated the availability of Drive-through service for selected POIs
• Enabled the ability to toggle Drive-through in the OSM editor
• Simplified handling of multiple languages feature names in the OSM editor and addressed related bugs
• Added a "Can't find a suitable category?" prompt in the OSM editor
• Fixed occasional overwriting of map features by the OSM editor
• Replaced the "stairs" icon with an elevator icon for displaying the level number of selected POIs
• Rectified missing local language name versions for specific POIs
• Enhanced visibility of the $ emoji for paid map features in dark mode
• Improved bicycle routing for certain scenarios
• Optimized the app size for better performance
Map:
• Display difficult hiking trails as brown-dotted, expert ones as black-dotted
• Blue lines under white/brown dashes for shared foot/cycle paths
• Dark blue lines for dedicated cycleways
• More consistency in displaying paved paths as white dashed lines, unpaved ones as brown dashed
• Roads are now visible beneath semi-transparent bridge outlines
• Added scree and shingle areas; better color of bare rock surfaces
• Stopped displaying vacant/unused shops
• Added natural=stone (shown as natural=rock) and miniature golf to the map
• Separate public transport shelters, basic huts, and lean-tos from generic shelters
• Added icons for animal enclosures, dry cleaning; updated laundry icon
• Fixed the issue of font size being too small for smaller cities
• Made cities labels visible at higher zooms
• Reduced the opacity of indigenous lands' hatching fill
• Hatching fill and icons/captions for nature reserves are not displayed at very detailed zoom levels
Search:
• Enhanced category search (padel, subway stations, wilderness huts, etc.)
• Enabled search for drinking water refill locations, including participating cafes
• Excluded private swimming pools from search results
• Added experimental search for "?wiki"
• Tuned category search rankings for better results
Translations: Basque, German, Greek, Slovak
Ratings and Reviews
Excellent app, but missing a few features.
I recently downloaded this app after hearing about it. Previously, I relied on applications such as Avenza and Gaia maps for offline navigation. However, they presented challenges: downloading additional offline areas incurred costs, and certain features were inaccessible. Organic Maps stands out due to its user-friendly interface, support, and extensive features.
Nevertheless, I have a few suggestions:
- It would be beneficial if users could press and hold on any location on the map to view its elevation. This would facilitate the determination of precise elevations anywhere on the map.
- Integration of additional map layers (such as Satellite, Shaded relief, etc.) and the ability to download them for offline use.
- Implementation of advanced navigation and GPS tools, including area calculation, coordinates derivation by offset (enabling users to select a location, specify distance and direction, and generate coordinates), GPX track recording, selection of various compass types (magnetic, true, grid), and dynamic routing.
This app is commendable, and the incorporation of these features would further enhance its utility.
Maps Don’t Get Better Than This
Organic Maps scared me. Using a new maps app, especially one that you’ve only heard about from strangers on the internet, is a very terrifying experience. Will it hold up?
I put it to the test in an hour long drive, from one larger city to a metro area. I made it! While Apple Maps has more bells and whistles during the routing experience, Organic Maps does the job. It makes up for it in many other areas, such as the fact that OpenStreetMap is an incredible project, and it’s great to put it to use; it allows us to download maps; and it’s far more beholden to its users than any closed-source app.
Almost perfect
Shows detailed OSM data with fully offline downloads. Light battery usage. Nice dark mode when relevant. Topo contours, peaks, and trails in "outdoor mode" are often better than official trail maps. Interface for editing OSM data is simple and easy to use. In fact all of the interfaces are relatively simple and let you do most things without excessive tapping around. Very nicely designed overall.
The search is not very "smart", and requires a few tries to get what I want; unsure if that's custom or it's just calling Nominatim, but it could use some future improvements.
Turn-by-turn navigation is also not great for driving, the directions are OK but the callouts are not very useful.
App Privacy
The developer, Organic Maps, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Organic Maps OU
- Size
- 137.6 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2021-2024 Organic Maps OÜ
- Price
- Free