🗺️ As many people are angry with #Google & asking for alternatives to #GoogleMaps, here are some Free & #OpenSource options:

📱 App
- osmand.net/
- organicmaps.app
🌐 Web
- mapcarta.com
- openstreetmap.org

Not Open Source:
🌐&📱
en.mapy.cz
wego.here.com
mapquest.com
🌐
lokjo.com
📱
komoot.com
magicearth.com

#FCKGoogle #Alternative #Apps #App #Web #Software #News #Tech #Maps #Map #Technology #it

Mapy.cz

Nejpoužívanější mapový portál v ČR s celou řadou tématických map - základní, turistickou, cyklistickou, dopravní a plno dalších. Nabízí možnost reálného leteckého, panoramatického nebo 3D pohledu.

^Mapy.cz

There is one feature of #LocusMap that I really like: you can take a picture of a map, calibrate it with the standard map and then have it as an overlay.

Very handy when you take the kids to the zoo or amusement park. 👌

#maps #map #OpenStreetMap

#Mapycz are now launching their premium version. I'm not sure if it is in response to that. But #LocusMap, a lovely #OpenStreetMap based app focused on outdoor activities built by a small company from #Prague, now has a 6 month trial of their premium plans. Check it out! 👇

#osm #maps #map

locusmap.app/

Locus Map - mobile outdoor navigation app

Multi-functional mobile outdoor navigation app for hiking, cycling, geocaching, sailing, flying and other sports activities and traveling

^{Locus Map - mobile outdoor navigation app}

En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for OpenStreetMap people. Funding graciously provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

en.osm.town

You can find out more at en.osm.town/about or contact the admin @compass

#FeaturedServer #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Maps #Mapping #Map #Geospatial #GIS #Cartography #Cartographers #Cartographer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

I wish there was a decent Google maps replacement. Not just for navigation--that's fairly simple--but rather for local SEARCH. How else are you supposed to search for stuff nearby? Yelp is the only alternative I even know of and it's terrible. Nextdoor is arguably a contender but it's even worse. Nothing community driven whatsoever that I'm aware of...

#Google #degoogle #maps

Are you sick of Google Maps, but are still worried about getting from A to B? 🏃 🚲 🚗

Checkout these great open source alternatives!

👉 tuta.com/blog/google-maps-alte…
#degoogle #maps #opensource #foss #privacy

🗺️ 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘔𝘢𝘱 3𝘋 🧊

demo.f4map.com

Zoom in to street level to see the 3D features.

#map #maps #OpenStreetMap #3D #topography #world #WorldMap #cities #landscape #environment #data #tools #OpenSource #FOSS

With the news that Google is going to "supercharge" Maps with "AI" (and the poor results I've had with Apple Maps), I finally checked out OpenStreetMap: openstreetmap.org/

OMG THIS IS AMAZING. So much more useful detail! Incredible! Going to dig up an app for my phone and use this for a while to see how it compares to the ad- and AI-ridden nonsense.

#maps #openstreetmap

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

^{OpenStreetMap}

#til

* very few land places have a land antipode #maps (Image source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipode…)

You can download the History of Cartography from the University of Chicago Press, vols. 1-4 and 6 (a total of 8 books).
The project is nearing completion after 40 years (volume 5 is still in preparation).
You do have to download the pdfs by chapter (about 200 total) but do you have anything better to do today?

#Maps #Cartography

press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/i…

I genuinely feel like #Protomaps is not nearly getting the attention it deserves

protomaps.com

We can drop a single file on a static host and get stylable vector maps? Magic ✨

In combination with Maplibre it's a game changer for 99% of web map use cases 👏

#OpenStreetMap #MapLibre #Maps #Mapstodon

Petrofuture Mexico…66m sea level rise on a 1956 road map.

#Pemex would be more appropriate, but #ShellOil will have to do

Base from David Rumsey Maps

More at
conspiracyofcartographers.com/

#mexico #Belize #Guatemala #Honduras #Nicaragua #ElSalvador #Caribbean #GulfOfMexico #BajaCalifornia #historicalmaps #vintagemaps #retrofuture #petrofuture #sealevelrise #sealevelrisemaps #climatechange #climatechangemaps #maps #cartography #speculativecartography #clifi #climateart #conspiracyofcartographers

' Often, when we give a blank map of the surrounding areas to Inuit who are helping us [they] have no problem recognizing and identifying features on the map, going only from their recollections of the land and what their families have described to them in words or in songs — without otherwise having used maps. They’ll even correct you, explaining something like, “there should be a lake there, but it’s not on your map.” '

#PlaceNames #Indigenous #Nunavut #Canada #maps

canadiangeographic.ca/articles…

Mapping traditional place names in Canada’s North

The staff of the Inuit Heritage Trust is racing across Canada’s North to document traditional Inuit place names before much of that knowledge passes on with the elders who hold it. Canadian Geographic sits down with lead researcher Lynn Peplinski.

^{Nick Walker (Canadian Geographic)}

I wrote a technical guide showing how you can create your own orthorectified (aka satellite view/bird mode) imagery, point clouds and 3D models of streets with nothing but a 360 degree camera mounted on bicycle helmet, and the open source photogrammetry software OpenDroneMap.

Why might you want to do this? With your own up-to-date, highly detailed point clouds and imagery you could:
- quantify and communicate inefficient road space allocation
- record necessary infrastructure repairs
- take measurements such as lane and cycleway widths
- measure footpath obstructions in 3D and rate pedestrian amenity
- map kerb features on OpenStreetMap
- survey street parking using the new OSM spec: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/St…
- 3D print a model of your home street!

jakecoppinger.com/2022/12/crea…

#openstreetmap #opendronemap #maps #photogrammetry #curb #kerb #parking #cycling #urbanism #mapping