February 14, 2024 

If you missed it, the February 2024 Organic Maps update is already available in Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, and AppStore.

Thanks to our contributors ❤️, there is a big list of changes!

  • OpenStreetMap data as of February 2
  • Restroom emoji for places with toilets
  • Display parking operator
  • More precise turn notifications for small distances
  • Fixed absent speed limit on some speed cameras
  • Open Location Codes (OLC, Plus Codes) search shows results relative to the current position and to the screen center
  • Fixed crash in search
  • Name editing for playgrounds
  • Parse coordinates from OpenStreetMap links
  • Allow editing of Greek names for Cyprus
  • Hindi support
  • Better and more precise search on the map, more relevant search results in the list
  • Removed "Continue detecting your location?" dialog, now location search can be stopped by pressing the "rotating radar" location button

Android:

  • Fixed Spanish and Portuguese TTS languages
  • Fixed KML, KMZ, GPX import crash
  • Fixed KMZ import from WhatsApp
  • Show what is copied to the clipboard on the lock screen for Android 13+
  • Fixed blurry buttons on Android 5

Android Auto:

  • Fixed indefinite loading
  • Fixed World map download
  • Show addresses on the Search Screen

iOS:

  • Current position is properly updated when returning back to the app
  • Improved the look of search bars
  • Auto Light/Dark theme setting is synced with the system
  • Properly display a longer cuisines list
  • Fixed location services permissions request for the first app start
  • Reduced the navigation screen top bar height

Map styles:

  • Orange color for secondary roads
  • Wider and brighter white tertiary roads
  • Nicer looking on- and off-ramp road links joins
  • Raised visibility of secondary and tertiary road links
  • Less bright farmlands color
  • Smaller mountain passes/saddles icons
  • Reduced visibilities of mountain saddles (compared to passes)
  • New ford icon
  • Made hospital and clinic icons look different
  • Reduced visibility of light rail stations
  • Added Boston and updated Taipei subway icons
  • Fixed Delhi subway entrance icons, Minsk & Spb subway captions on detailed zoom
  • Increased font size of towns and suburbs labels and decreased for neighborhoods
  • Fixed bookmark icon for water parks
  • Adjust the visibilities of many POIs

Outdoors map style:

  • Increased 50m & 100m contour lines visibilities
  • Raised visibility of campsites, survey points, toilets, and touristic information features
  • New power tower and flagpole/mast icons
  • Made bridleways to be the same brown color as paths
  • Increased contrast of footways on overview zooms

Car navigation map style:

  • Added toilets, convenience stores
  • Reduced visibilities of artwork features and subway station captions
  • Bigger roundabout exit number

Updated Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Finnish, French, Romanian, Slovak, and Ukrainian translations

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 February 14, 2024 

A list of articles about Organic Maps we have recently found on the web. Read, enjoy, share! A bit of organic word-of-mouth marketing doesn't hurt 😉

  1. Organic Maps, an alternative to Google Maps https://www.todoandroid.es/en/organic-maps-una-alternativa-a-google-maps/
  2. Let Google Maps rest, this is the app that's coming to replace it, it's free and it doesn't spy on you https://www.smallcapnews.co.uk/let-google-maps-rest-this-is-the-app-thats-coming-to-replace-it-its-free-and-it-doesnt-spy-on-you-teach-me-about-science/
  3. Esta alternativa a Google Maps es de código abierto y permite la navegación GPS sin conexión https://www.20minutos.es/tecnologia/aplicaciones/google-maps-codigo-abierto-navegacion-gps-sin-internet-5207595/
  4. Adiós a Google Maps y Wikiloc: así es Organic Maps, la avanzada apps de mapas que no necesita conexión https://www.elespanol.com/elandroidelibre/aplicaciones/20230909/adios-google-maps-wikiloc-organic-avanzada-apps-mapas-no-necesita-conexion/792421133%5F0.html
  5. Abandona Google Maps con esta otra app que sí cuida tu privacidad en Android y iOS https://depor.com/depor-play/tecnologia/abandona-google-maps-con-esta-otra-app-que-si-cuida-tu-privacidad-en-android-y-ios-organic-maps-google-google-maps-mexico-espana-mx-noticia/