A new Organic Maps update is available in all stores.

AppStore | Google Play | Huawei AppGallery | FDroid

• New OSM data as of March 14, 2022
• Wikipedia articles for well-known places
• Search for organic shops, cafes and restaurants!
• Improved search suggestions
• Brighter roads in night mode
• Darker farmlands and parkings
• Properly display parkings and parks over hospital grounds
• Synced visibility for steps and footways
• Fixed visibility of community_centre
• Display parkings, parks, etc. over hospital grounds
• Added bubble_tea and water_well
• Removed transparent circles from some icons
• Fixed museum icons
• Fixed some routing issues
• Improved and fixed Arabic, Romanian, Spanish translations

Android 🤖
• Use Material3 style for bottom sheet menus
• GPS waits for a few seconds for accurate locations on device unlock
• Fixed layers button overlapping the compass in RTL layout
• Improved show on map behavior in search and bookmarks

iOS 
• Fixed appearance of date pickers when editing opening hours
• Fixed rare crashes after downloading maps
• Select a proper light/dark CarPlay theme on the startup
• Automatically switch CarPlay dark/light mode based on the system notification
• Add date and time to My Position bookmarks
• Fixed crash on the menu click after hiding the interface

Known issues:
Recycling search doesn't work properly. We'll fix it in the next update.

Some guidelines for Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC) participants who want to become open-source contributors to Organic Maps:

1. Check the list of our ideas for GSoC and the long list of issues and feature requests from our users. Select what you like or propose your own idea. Discuss it with us if you have any questions.
2. Start by reading Organic Maps project documentation.
3. Set up the development environment. Try to build the project and run unit tests or run it on your device/simulator.
4. Optionally, try to fix or debug an existing issue.
5. If you are ready to proceed, please register as a contributor on the GSoC website and create a formal proposal to participate. Some guidelines are available here.

The last day to submit a proposal is April 19.

GSoC 2022 reminder:
Tomorrow, April 19, is the last day to send your proposals.

A new April update of Organic Maps is live in all stores!

Here is the changelog:
• Updated OSM maps data as of April 15, 2022
• Experimental Wikipedia articles everywhere
• Improved car route directions
• Some speed and battery optimizations
• Many routing improvements
• Fixed subway routing in some cities
• Added Euskara (Basque) translations
• Improved Italian and DE translations
• More often oneway arrows
• Removed town halls and gardens from sightseeing
• Get phone from "mobile" OSM tag
• Add more vending_machine types
• Added landuse=education
• Fixed school and kindergarten area priorities and fills
• Fixed Recycling category search
• Fixed Internet access displaying
• Fixed descriptions serialization in the edits.xml
• Fixed text heights rendering
• Follow our news in "?"

Android
• Show SD card even if there is not enough space on it
• Fixed check for free space when updating maps
• Fixed annoying "location disabled" dialog
• FDroid users now can update World files
• Fixed button to view search results on a map on Android 8 and lower
• Fixed menu colors and the refreshed navigation menu
• editor.config can be overridden (if you have root)
• Added matrix, email, OSM links
• Don't mirror the next turn sign in the LTR layout
• Fixed RTL zoom buttons covered by Search and Bookmarks in Routing mode

Desktop (yes, Organic Maps can run on Mac and Linux, Windows is almost ready too)
• Improved Routing settings dialog
• Flathub, AppStream, Repology support
• Improved selection toolbar layout
• Use XDG path for settings

Meet the May Organic Maps update!
Here is the changelog:

All platforms:
• New OSM data as of May 15, 2022
• Improved car and pedestrian directions
• Improved cross-region routing
• Fixed some pedestrian/bike/car routing issues
• Some performance optimizations
• Fixed some translations
• Added Marathi language
• Added Devanagari font

Android:
• Allow using emulated storage for downloads
• Fixed GPS search on start
• Fixed accidental position jumps near WiFi

iOS:
• Fixed low memory crash for car routing
• Fixed opening non-ASCII URLs and URLs without http(s)

Note that the FDroid version is still not published, we're working on it.

A hotfix Android release (May 31) is available in stores:
• Fixed disappearing of downloaded maps files bug introduced in the last release.
If you were affected, please open "Save maps to" in OM settings and switch to "Internal private storage" (with a /data/data/... path). Then tap OK to move maps, and all your disappeared maps will be back shortly! After that, you can switch to a storage option of your choice.
• Fixed crash for some routes.
• Do not draw place=region on the World map.

Please see previous release notes for more details.

Please send us some examples of KMZ and GPZ files with embedded icons, it will help to properly implement custom icons feature:
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/2785

The June release is available only in the AppStore and Huawei AppGallery, the FDroid update is delayed for technical reasons and the Google Play update is still in review for more than one week. Maybe it’s not so bad, as we expect potential crashes on some older Android devices in that release and forgot to activate Marathi translations. No worries, these and other issues have already been fixed and soon will be available in another update 😉

Here is the changelog for the June update:

• New OSM data as of June 13, 2022
• Improved routing and fixed many cross-region issues when the route failed with the error
• Nicer fences, city walls, paths/tracks, waterfalls, fountains & drinking_water
• Added icons for guidepost, plaque, bicycle rental
• Typing category like "food" in the search also matches features' names
• Added cliffs, embankments, bicycle repair stations, graves, water tunnels, craft=*
• Townhalls and some crafts can be added in the Editor
• Road shields for Cyprus
• Better displaying of the next turn street
• [iOS] Layers of area styles are rendered properly
• [Android] Logs fallback to internal storage

Some examples of the improved rendering.

Fdroid and Google Play updates are finally available. Please let us know about any issues. And even better, please, contribute and donate! Organic Maps is Open Source, and there are many ways to support the development.
Have a safe traveling! 🗺️

New app update 2022.07.01 is available on AppStore and AppGalery.

Changelog for all platforms:
• Prettify pattern lines drawing (also fixes crash on some older devices)
• Icons for information=board/map
• Fixed categories search with stop words
• Made all existing sports searchable
• amenity=parking can be added on the map via Editor
• Fixed place=square visibility at 16+ zoom level
• Made streams & rivers visible on the beach
• Made hedges and power lines less contrast
• Improved Portuguese (Brasil), Spanish, Italian, French, and Euskara translations
• Enabled Marathi translation

Also for Android:
• Updated Place Page style
• Show "Opens in"/"Closes in" in search results

Google Play and FDroid updates are also available. Please note that FDroid build is not the latest one, it crashes with public transport routes. The fix should be available in upcoming days. The changelog is here.

FDroid update 2022.07.01-6-FDroid with a crash fix for Public Transport is finally available. We also got several reports from users that paths/tracks are not drawn in some map areas in the most recent version. Please let us know if you encounter it.

New update 2022.07.27 is already available in AppStore and Huawei AppGallery but is still reviewed in other stores. The detailed changelog for all platforms:
• New OSM data as of July 18, 2022
• Added missing shop types from OpenStreetMap tags: antiques, art, baby_goods, bag, boutique, charity, cheese, craft, dairy, deli, electrical, farm, fishing, grocery, health_food, houseware, interior_decoration, kitchen, lottery, medical_supply, nutrition_supplements, paint, pastry, perfumery, second_hand, sewing, storage_rental, tobacco, trade, watches, wholesale
• Properly select max speed in some routing cases
• sport=* tags have higher priority than leisure=pitch
• Fill transit mark place page with feature info
• Show text info about the next turn's street longer
• Use building:min_level for 3D buildings
• Allow removing cuisines from selection in the Editor
• Fix Belarusian, German, Russian, and Ukrainian translations
• Add missing translations for OSM natural=* and amenity=events_venue types

Android:
• Fixed and updated API support. Now you can select a point on the map and return it back to your app. See https://omaps.app/api for more details, check our API examples for Android, or let us know if you are interested in integrating Organic Maps with your app.
• Fixed invisible paths and trails on Mali-G72 Huawei devices
• Fix Facebook URLs validation
• Limited bottom sheet menu title to max 3 lines
• Show only one back arrow in bookmark search
• Fixed padding of bookmark categories

iOS:
• Show "Open"/"Opens in"/"Closes in" in search results
• Show speed limit near the current speed in navigation mode

Linux:
• Fix assertion failure in ES3 scenario on Linux, now OM should work on mobile Linux too

Organic Maps 2022.07.27 is available on FDroid! Release notes are here.

Finally, Organic Maps 2022.07.27 is also available on Google Play. Release notes are here.

🍏 Meet many improvements in the Organic Maps update for iOS!

Highlights:
• New data as of August 16
• Longer routes are calculated faster
• Search should work way better and faster now
• Reduced size of mwm files
• Restored WunderLINQ support (yes, we have the API!)

User Interface:
• Unified Place Page and Editor UI layout
• Replaced altitude difference to ascent and descent
• Show POI level in Place Page
• Social media contacts are displayed on Place Page and Editor
• Show "Opens in"/"Closes in" in Place Page
• Fixed animation for side buttons

Navigation:
• Improved speed limit displaying for CarPlay (red for overspeed)
• Fixed roundabout number
• Increased visibility of next street

Search improvements:
• Fixed issue when some found objects were not highlighted on the map
• Removed common street search synonyms like parkway, path, line, walk, trail, etc.
• Fixed coordinates search if a query contains a newline
• Ignore non-relevant search results for coordinates
• Better search for capitals
• Treat 'emergency' as a last-choice feature type
• Added Catalan street search synonyms
• Properly filter equal streets in search results

Map styles:
• Improved visibility of military areas and boundaries
• Show disabled parking spaces
• Do not draw icons for residential gardens
• Render farm yard
• Add parking_entrance
• Add playground and internet cafe icon
• Add second_hand and charity
• Add table_tennis, volleyball, beachvolleyball, skateboard, chess, padel, handball, futsal, hockey, badminton, pelota
• Removed background circles from icons

Translations:
• Updated Arabic translations and TTS texts
• Added missing translations for place=*
• Belarusian translations of countries
• Added missing Turkish translations

🤖Finally, Organic Maps August update is also available in Google Play, Fdroid, Huawei AppGallery, and Flathub (iOS version passed review earlier).
Thanks to all our contributors, supporters, and users, the app goes better and better with each update 😉

Highlights:
• New data as of August 16
• Longer routes are calculated faster
• Search should work way better and faster now
• Reduced size of mwm files
• Restored WunderLINQ support (yes, we have an API! Check omaps.app/api)
• Disabled Vulkan for Mali-G71 to fix path rendering
• Support wikimedia_commons tag
• Fixed crash when selecting some objects on the map

User Interface:
• Unified Place Page and Editor UI layout
• Replaced altitude difference to ascent and descent
• Show POI level in Place Page
• Show "Map data from OpenStreetMap" in the splash screen. Yes, many users don't get it.
• Fixed advanced timetable editor layout

Navigation:
• Fixed roundabout number
• Increased visibility of next street
• Fixed font in navigation progress bar

Search improvements:
• Fixed issue when some found objects were not highlighted on the map
• Removed common street search synonyms like parkway, path, line, walk, trail, etc.
• Fixed coordinates search if the query contains a newline
• Ignore non-relevant search results for coordinates
• Better search for capitals
• Treat 'emergency' as a last-choice feature type
• Added Catalan street search synonyms
• Properly filter equal streets in search results

Map styles:
• Improved visibility of military areas and boundaries
• Show disabled parking spaces
• Do not draw icon for residential gardens
• Render farm yard
• Add parking_entrance
• Add playground and internet cafe icon
• Add second_hand and charity
• Add table_tennis, volleyball, beachvolleyball, skateboard, chess, padel, handball, futsal, hockey, badminton, pelota
• Removed background circles from non-business icons

Translations:
• Updated Arabic translations and TTS texts
• Added missing translations for place=*
• Belarusian translations of countries
• Added missing Turkish translations