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Social recommendations and mentions

• The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford

  We're rebuilding Google Maps on the Web, and the Web only with https://cartes.app. The main problem we're struggling with is mobile OSes' will to hide the possibility of installing Web app on our devices, and deactiving things like the vibration API. Not the Web itself. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport

  Well he'd be proud to see the extend of the fixed routes network in France today : https://cartes.app/?style=transports#6.32/47.811/2.097 Each blue polygon is a network. Zoom to see the lines. Of course we should do way better, and unify all that with a single ticket and single website for route planning. - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

• StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

  Https://cartes.app is trying to do this. OsmAnd is quite usable as well. For navigation there's Magic Earth (can route around traffic jams), TomTom, and Scenic. OsmAnd can also do routing. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

  For the web, I personally like https://osmapps.org https://cartes.app I can also recommend. Both projects have a similar goal, to offer a more useful UI around using an OSM based map. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Make Your First Edit to OpenStreetMap in the Next 15 Minutes

  We added a simple place editor to https://cartes.app that includes the website attribute. We're convinced most users (shopowners too) want to read and write in the same app. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off

  For-profit, but privacy focused and 100 % Web and open-source, no ads : https://cartes.app (I'm the main dev). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go?

  Don't know where they went, but here they are : https://cartes.app/?cat=toilettes&perspective=non#14.58/48.86164/2.3488. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Dutch Train Map Simulator

  Cool view ! For France, I've built the first interactive map of all* public transports. You just zoom on a zone and see the network (the bluish polygons) pop-up, clickable. Representing trains, that all share a common way but with very different schedules and destinations, is hard. No map is good, all do compromises. Hence I've delayed representing trains, it's too hard.... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

  One of these viewpoints maybe ? https://cartes.app/?cat=point-de-vue#13.66/62.56098/7.70188. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

  You can already add photos to OSM database. Eg. Via wikimedia_commons tag. There is already plenty of apps which show them, like OsmAnd or https://cartes.app , https://osmapp.org or https://openclimbing.org where you can even upload the photos from the map UI. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Organic Maps

  Organic Maps and its fork Comaps still lack a Web client. We're this on https://cartes.app, trying to push the Web further (even on mobile devices). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Organic Maps

  We the FOSS world just have 100 to 10000 less budget to implement this feature. It's a hard problem, and you can't ignore that lots of other features are missing. E.g. Street view or place comments. I'm working on https://cartes.app and we're well aware that search is not on par, far from it. But we have hundreds of other features and bugs to fix. https://codeberg.org/cartes/web. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• OS9Map

  Shameless plug : I'm working on https://cartes.app, a Web OpenStreetMap app. Far less difficult as coding for an old OS obviously, but still a challenge ! The Web has plenty of potential, but constraints too, mostly because of dominant actors, such as Apple that hid the PWA install button. Can't post it yet as a proper subject, it can't handle top page load. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe

  Scaleway is great. Never had any problem. Has an open-source startup program. https://cartes.app proudly runs on Scaleway. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

  Outdoor style : https://cartes.app/?style=outdoors&terrain=oui#16.13/57.290344/-6.171279 It's interesting to see the wide variations that can be designed. May styling is choosing between an infinity of possibilities ! - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• OpenTrafficMap

  I'm the founder and main developer. > Where does it get this cool image from? Dog Eared Books https://cartes.app/?allez=Dog+Eared+Books%7Cn6780338385%7C-1... We extract the og image from the website. https://codeberg.org/cartes/web/src/branch/master/app/getOgImage/route.ts > Also, I noticed the map is at least a few days behind in my area, how long does it take for you to get updates? Yes, we have a double problem... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• OpenTrafficMap

  This is freaking great! How are you involved? Where does it get this cool image from? Dog Eared Books https://cartes.app/?allez=Dog+Eared+Books%7Cn6780338385%7C-122.42142%7C37.75839 Also, I noticed the map is at least a few days behind in my area, how long does it take for you to get updates? Do you plan to offer any way to sync data between devices? - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• OpenTrafficMap

  Can you try this one ? Though not as flashy, it's a step away from most OSM styles. https://cartes.app/#13.13/47.06727/15.44801. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• OpenTrafficMap

  Https://cartes.app. Based on OSM of course, but OSM is just a geographical database, with lots of incomplete UIs built on top by the community. Cartes is one of them, we're trying to make it complete and modern :). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago