June 29, 2026 

There are many new exciting features and bugfixes in the June Organic Maps update to try out, including:

  • Satellite imagery
  • Public transport routes
  • Alternate routes
  • New search and route planning interface for Android
  • Large accessibility fonts support for iOS

Get it at https://get.omaps.org or on the App Store, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, Obtainium, Accrescent, and F-Droid and let us know what you think!

Detailed changelog

  • NEW! Public transport routing by subway, light rail, bus, and tram (Viktor Govako)
  • NEW! Alternate routes: in addition to the fastest route, the app now shows the shortest route (Viktor Govako)
  • NEW! Walking and cycling route warnings about steps, gates, and lift gates along the way (Viktor Govako)
  • NEW! Select any color for bookmarks (Alexander Borsuk, Mikhail Listratsenka)
  • NEW! Support for British National Grid (OS Grid), Irish Grid, and Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) coordinates (Alexander Borsuk)
  • EXPERIMENTAL: Enable Satellite Imagery in Organic Maps settings with a custom raster tile server URL. We are still working on our own server, so please find an openly available one with {x}, {y}, {z} placeholders in its URL (Viktor Govako, renderexpert)
  • OpenStreetMap data updated as of June 24 (Viktor Govako)
  • Wikipedia data updated as of June 20, including articles in Italian (Alexander Borsuk)
  • Type ?map-download-server:https://your-server.com/ in the search window to override the Organic Maps map download servers. Type ?no-map-download-server to remove the override (Alexander Borsuk)

Map rendering & styles

  • Better-looking patterns for beach, sand, scree, bare rock, orchard, and vineyard areas, plus protected area and wetland hatching (Alexander Borsuk)
  • Smoother curved text labels for roads and rivers (Viktor Govako)
  • Rivers, streams, and wetlands have higher contrast and are more visible in dark mode (Alexander Borsuk)
  • New and improved icons for category search and search results on the map (Anton Makouski)
  • Improved multilingual text shaping and rendering (Alexander Borsuk)
  • Various bug fixes and performance improvements (Viktor Govako)

Tracks, bookmarks & routes

  • GeoJSON tracks now keep elevation and timestamps on import and export (Alexander Borsuk)
  • Fixed a crash after moving a track to another list (Viktor Govako)
  • Websites are now shown for heritage sites (Viktor Govako)
  • Operator names are now shown for unnamed search results. For example, an unnamed ATM now shows its bank (Anton Makouski)
  • Editor: corrected the description text for apartment-building OpenStreetMap edits/changesets (titanniya542-spec)
  • Improved HTML detection in bookmark and track descriptions (Alexander Borsuk)

iOS

  • NEW! Accessibility support for Dynamic Type and large fonts (Kiryl Kaveryn)
  • NEW! Tap to choose between overlapping tracks and routes (Kiryl Kaveryn)
  • Improved HTML rendering of bookmark and track descriptions (Kiryl Kaveryn)
  • Cleaner table styling in the UI (Kiryl Kaveryn)

Android

  • NEW! Search interface (Kavi Khalique, Mikhail Listratsenka, Alexander Borsuk)
  • NEW! Routing interface (Rishan, Mikhail Listratsenka, Alexander Borsuk)
  • Improved HTML rendering of bookmark and track descriptions (Mikhail Listratsenka)
  • Reduced APK size (Alexander Borsuk)
  • The voice icon is shown as disabled when no text-to-speech engine is available (Mikhail Listratsenka)
  • Long bookmark and track descriptions now show a "…more" button (Mikhail Listratsenka)
  • Various UI fixes and an API fix for returned point IDs (Mikhail Listratsenka)

Desktop

  • Support for switching the displayed coordinate system (Alexander Borsuk)
  • Information about the selected place is now displayed on the left (Viktor Govako)
  • Fixed the context menu position (Osyotr)
  • Fixed OpenStreetMap login and edits hanging on Qt versions 6.4 and earlier (Alexander Borsuk)
  • Fixed unexpected map style switching during routing on macOS (Alexander Borsuk)
  • Fixed a crash when closing the macOS app after exporting a KMZ file (Alexander Borsuk)

Translations

  • Cantonese turn-by-turn voice guidance (Alexander Borsuk)
  • Updated German and French translations (Wuzzy, Alexander Borsuk)
  • Fixed incorrect "onto street" voice guidance translations for Chinese, Serbian, and Catalan (Alexander Borsuk)

Join beta testing to try early features and report issues:

We are grateful to all our users and contributors, to those who donate and give Organic Maps 5 stars in app stores. Together we can build the best maps app!

With love, Organic Maps Team