A new Android Test build 2025.05.26-13-test with CoMaps own map data! 🚀

Changes compared to the previous test build:
- CoMaps first own map data 🎉 as of May 15
- log-in to OSM account via a web browser (a standard more secure oauth2 practice) - guarantees CoMaps doesn't touch your login/password and provides transparency to permissions requested
- change deeplinks/api scheme from om:// to cm://
- fix sometimes incorrect/cached download map info when tapping on a not downloaded region
(also the apk includes arm32 devices support which was forgotten last time 😊)

Codeberg issue: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/172

Colorful News!

We're delighted to reveal that after brainstorming, lots of creative input, and voting, you have chosen the color for CoMaps! 🎨

The winning color is – ‘deep olive green’! This was the top pick in the community collaboration. The color reflects our community's passion for travel and the outdoors, with a warm, calm, and happy appeal which reflects a friendly and visually appealing experience!

A big thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts and voted . Your input has truly made this app a reflection of the community.

A new Android test build 2025.05.30-4-test with some bugfixes!
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/225

Changes compared to the previous test build:
- add local map size to the post-install download screen, thanks to @lampotrias
- fix "Auto in navigation" night mode to switch to light theme upon navigation exit, thanks to @hb0nd
- a bunch of bugfixes imported from Organic Maps, notably:
- fix "can't cancel downloads" bug
- reload TTS engine after it was changed in system settings
- fix some Android 5 crashes
- translation updates

Next we just need to integrate color scheme changes based on the https://t.me/CoMapsApp/18 and we'll be ready for a release!

Initial CoMaps release! 🎉
Powered by the community ❤️

Changes from the Organic Maps upstream:
• OpenStreetMap data as of May 15
• login to OSM account via a web browser
• removed semi-transparent background in Subway layer
• replaced metaserver with a static map servers list
• add local map size to the startup download screen
• improve auto night mode switch when there is no location fix
• fix incorrect map info when tapping on a not downloaded region
• update translations
• rebrand - the logo is provisional still

Easy map navigation with privacy - Discover more of your journey ❤️

Attention All Creative Minds!
CoMaps Logo Design Challenge

We’re inviting all designers, artists, and creative thinkers to collaborate and create a stunning new logo for CoMaps.

How to Participate:

1) Design Your Logo: Create a unique and eye-catching logo that represents the spirit of CoMaps.
2) Share Your Work: Add your design on Codeberg https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/23
3) Collaborate: Feel free to team up with other creatives to iterate and make your design even better!
4) Tag Us: Post on your social media channels using the hashtag #CoMapsLogoChallenge. Tag CoMaps in your posts so we can see your amazing creations!

Deadlines:
6 June - Design and iteration completed
9 June - Round 1 voting completed
12 June - Iteration completed
15 June - Round 2 voting completed

Criteria:
- Simple: easy to draw from memory
- Unique
- Monochrome in # 588157 brand color; multi-color version is optional
- Subtly reflects idea of travel, maps, community, or outdoors

CoMaps is Now on Product Hunt! And we're hoping to make it to the top of the page. Right now, we have 4 upvotes, and the top product has 358 upvotes. Let's see if we can get CoMaps to the top!

Help Us Reach the Top!
1. Upvote CoMaps: https://www.producthunt.com/products/comaps-2
2. Add Comment: What is your favorite way to use offline maps?

Why CoMaps?
· Offline Maps: Hike, bike, and drive without an internet connection.
· Privacy-Focus: Navigate with ease and no tracking.
· Community-Powered: Built by this amazing community.

Every upvote helps more people discover CoMaps. Thank you! 🌍❤️

Logo Voting is Now Open!

Shape the face of CoMaps! People in the community have added their designs, collaborated and iterated, and now it's up to you to decide which one will represent us best.

– Check Out the Designs: Take a look at the different logo options and see which one resonates with you the most - https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/73
– Vote: Add 👍 reaction to your favorite designs.

Criteria
· Simple: easy to draw from memory
· Unique
· Subtly reflects idea of travel, maps, community, or outdoors

Deadline
9 June: Voting closes Monday. Make your voice heard!

Which logo do you like best?

After voting completes, authors of the top voted logos will have time to iterate and fine-tune based on community's feedback. Then there will be a second round of voting in a separate issue.

A new Android test build 2025.06.08-2-test with new features!
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/306

Please pay extra attention and give feedback on
- add a setting to change the leftmost button function or hide it completely

Related issue and PR.

Many thanks to @lampotrias for this great contribution!

More features and changes:
- routing mode: save built routes as tracks
- transparent system navigation bar in the light mode
- editor: Add Mastodon and Bluesky POI contact options
- display Azimuth angle in direction arrow view
- color scheme changes
- post-install download screen: display regional map size also after World map had been downloaded
- update translations
- update Android dependencies

Today is the last day of Round 1 Logo voting (end of day AoE which means noon UTC of the following day).

Please make sure to review the logos (there were new logo additions and change of presentation of some existing logos) and adjust your vote if needed.

https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/73

The resulting scores will account for 👍 and 👎 down reactions only.
(because some people put e.g. both ❤️ and 👍, so there is duplication which is hard to account for).

So if you've put ❤️ or 😕 then make sure you've also put thumbs up / down.

Thanks!

A new Android release with new features and updated maps!
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases

• OpenStreetMap data as of June 2
• add a setting to change the leftmost button or hide it (by @lampotrias)
• save built routes as tracks (by cyber-toad)
• add Qingdao metro, plant nurseries, highway guard rails, ladders, studios, dance venues, firepits, love hotels (by hemanggs and sddzhyc)
• transparent system navigation bar in the light mode (by coderang-gk)
• add Mastodon and Bluesky contact options to POIs and OSM editor (by hb0nd)
• display Azimuth angle in direction arrow view (by hemanggs)
• update translations

The same version is available in Google Closed Testing for registered testers!

Android Test build 2025.06.12-17-test
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/364

A big rework of map colors by @yannikbloscheck !
Lighter, warmer, friendlier!

Please provide feedback:
- Is it better than previous colors (as used by / inherited from Organic Maps)?
- Are there any important cases when it looks worse or is less functional?

Please test the change in various scenarios and in the outdoor map style too, check if road and cycleway types are distinguishable, there is enough contrast, etc.

Share your feedback in Codeberg PR #313

Other changes:
- fix wrong 1MB displayed map size after any download error (by @lampotrias)
- map data as of June 2
- update translations

CoMaps is available on F-Droid now! 🤖
https://f-droid.org/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/

Please note that its the "older" 2025.06.01 release for now.

F-Droid is aware of the latest 2025.06.10 release already and will build and publish it in a few days (usually it'd take ~4-6 days for a release to get published on F-Droid).
We'll make a separate bigger announcement when its ready!

Logo Voting Round 1 is Complete!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of the logo voting! Your engagement and feedback have been incredible, and we're excited to share the results.

Top 6 Logos
The logos that received the most votes:

1. “CO-Arrow”

2. “CoMaps Arrow”

3. “Windy-Road-Pin"

4. "Co Compass"

5. "Clouds/continents arrow"

6. "CM-Compass-Split"

Next Step
These logos will now undergo a refinement process, to iterate and improve the designs. See https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/78

Final Vote
Once the final versions are complete, the final round of voting will open. This will be your chance to choose the final logo that will represent CoMaps.

Together, we're building something amazing, and we can't wait to see the final logo that you help create!

CoMaps Preview Release is now available on the Google Play Store! It’s your chance to be among the first to get the 2025.06.10-4 release from Google Play! 

How to Get It
In the Play Store, search for “CoMaps”, then Install.

We Need Your Feedback
This preview release is about testing and refining. If you encounter any bugs or have  suggestions, please let us know!

Release notes
https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-06-10/Android-release-2025.06.10-is-out-on-Codeberg!/

Android Test build 2025.06.16-16-test
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/441

Adjustments were made to the renewed light style map colors according to the community feedback.
Some feedback was out of scope of this redesign so separate issues were created for proposed ideas, see details in the PR #313

Is the color/style change ready for release now?

Other changes:
- fix location sharing links and add a web page for them e.g. https://comaps.at/0tflWSZCLB/The_Lodge (by @zyphlar and @hb0nd)
- also fix donation button not opening the website and wrong placemark uris in KML files
- updated UI colors in the route building screen (by @map-per)
- OSM editor: add a "level" field and more tweaks (by @map-per)
- update translations

And a bunch of changes from OM:
- update charging and gas stations icons (by euf)
- fixed location arrow small jumps in some cases (by kavikhalique)
- increase "eye" buttons touch area in the bookmarks screen (by kavikhalique)
- android 5&6 bugfixes (by hemanggs and biodranik)

Android Test build 2025.06.19-11-test
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/491

More adjustments made to the updated light style map colors by @yannikbloscheck:
- Made parking areas slightly blueish, which should help them to stand out more
- Made the beaches darker (also made a few major roads slightly thicker to be better visible over the adjusted beaches and adjusted deserts slightly to fit this)
- Adjusted place icon colors to the new map style
- Adjusted the airport colors to make them even more blueish
- Now using a slightly less saturated background color for near zoom levels (also adjusted pedestrian areas to fit this)
- Made scrubs slightly brighter at zoom level 14-15

Other changes:
- fix a bug with search pane taking half of the screen
- fix "subway unavailable" popup taking too much space
- update color of some buttons
- update translations

We're thrilled to announce that CoMaps Android release 2025.06.10 is now live on the F-Droid app catalogue!

This is a big step forward in our mission to provide a privacy-respecting, community-powered navigation app to everyone.

Why F-Droid?
- Free and Open Source: F-Droid ensures that the apps listed contain no closed / proprietary parts. All apps are built by F-Droid itself and are guaranteed to correspond to source code made available by apps' developers.

- Community: F-Droid is a volunteer-driven project, aligning perfectly with our values and the support of the amazing people who use CoMaps.

Get CoMaps on F-Droid
1. Install F-Droid: Download F-Droid from f-droid.org
2. Install CoMaps: Search "CoMaps" in F-Droid, install

We're excited to bring CoMaps to the F-Droid community. Thank you for being a part of this journey with us! ❤️

A new Android 2025.06.22-5 release!
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/2025.06.22-5-android

A big rework of the map colors - lighter, warmer, friendlier! (by @yannikbloscheck)

- fix location sharing links and add a web page for them (by @zyphlar and @hb0nd)
- also fix donation button not opening the website and wrong placemark uris in KML files
- OSM editor: add a "level" field and more tweaks (by @map-per)
- update UI colors in the route building screen (by @map-per)
- update color of some buttons (by @jeanbaptisteC)
- update charging and gas stations icons (by euf)
- fix wrong 1MB displayed map size after any download error (by @lampotrias)
- increase "eye" buttons touch area in the bookmarks screen (by kavikhalique)
- fix "subway unavailable" popup taking too much space (by @lampotrias)
- fixed location arrow small jumps in some cases (by kavikhalique)
- android 5&6 bugfixes (by hemanggs and biodranik)
- update translations

The same version will be available on F-Droid and Google Play soon!

A first public TestFlight build 2025.06.22-0 is available for iOS! 🍏

To join testing: https://testflight.apple.com/join/EGSsGRn7

Please note that CarPlay is not available yet (waiting for Apple's approval).

The available space for beta testers is limited. So if the beta is full, maybe check again at some point later.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome in https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/560 🙏

The iOS TestFlight version had been updated to 2025.06.24-0 ! 🍏

To join testing: https://testflight.apple.com/join/EGSsGRn7

Please leave feedback at https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/589

Changes since the last test build:
- Made login into OSM possible again and changed how it works
- Improved support for third party e-mail clients
- Fixed a few issues with the alert background only partly showing

Known issues:
- CarPlay not available yet (waiting for Apple's approval still)

Many thanks to @yannikbloscheck for all the work on the iOS version ❤️

Android Test build 2025.06.27-30-test
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/626

Added automatic backups for bookmarks and tracks. Please go to the settings and set it up there.
Many thanks to @lampotrias for implementing it!

More changes:
- made paths and tracks appear later in the general map style - at the same zoom level as footways (use the outdoor style for trails overview, please) (by @eisa01)
- hide active custom button action from the hamburger menu, move there About & Help from the settings (by @hb0nd)
- update train station icons (by @vikiawv)
- make pedestrian areas slightly more distinct (by @yannikbloscheck)
- improve screen reader compatibility (by @clover and @hb0nd)
- fix Android 14+ crashes when starting foreground services (by kavikhalique)
- fix cutoff of too long multibyte map labels (by @x7z4w)
- fix speed limit indicator activating when driving exactly at speed limit (by @hb0nd)