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Organic Maps (Unofficial)

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Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MapsWithMe (Maps.Me) founders.

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Number of Downloads:

Google Maps 10b (90.4%)

Maps Me 50m (0.4%)

Waze 50m (0.45%)

Google Maps Go 500m (4.5%)

Organic Maps 1.1m (0.009%)

Total: 11.05b

Number of Reviews Play Store:

Google Maps 18.5m (64%)

Maps Me 1.27m (4.4%)

Waze 8.77m (30.3%)

Google Maps Go 313k (1%)

Organic Maps 103k (0.03%)

Total: 28.8m

Number of Reviews Appstore:

Google Maps 731k (74.6%)

Maps Me 12k (1.2%)

Waze 233k (23.7%)

Apple Maps 2.5k (0.2%)

Organic Maps 85u (0.08%)

Total: 979.35k

Number of Contributors:

Google Maps 120m (91.9%)

Openstreetmaps 10.5m (8%)

Total: 130.5m

Community Size on Lemmy

Organic Maps 318u (55.3%)

Apple Maps 257u (44.6%)

Total: 575u

Edit 1: fixed the inconsistency of the numbers placement.

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[–] vatlark 3 points 1 day ago

Some things I learned.

Maps.me is the predecessor to organic maps.

Google Maps Go is basically just the browser version of Google maps meant for low memory phones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is cool, Thank you for making it. Do the downloads include github and other store downloads?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It was my pleasure ;)

I’m not sure how to check GitHub downloads and Appstore downloads are only visible to the developers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I know I should’ve used libreoffice spreadsheet for this 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's OpenStreetMap, not maps, the last character is "p".

There are other related lemmy communities:

OSM has it's own mastodon instance en.osm.town, a lot of users comments from there.

I don't know how you selected these apps for comparison. There are some other well known osm based apps: Magic Earth and Mapy.cz are proprietary, but very good quality, Osmand is partially foss. It would be interesting to compare om to those as well.

I'm not really sure pie charts are the best way to visualise this data. What about people who has multiple apps downloaded?

Where does the contributor number of gmaps come from? Is everyone who added a shop or joke becomes a contributor or is this the google employees only?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I have made edits to Google Maps geometry, not just closed businesses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where does the contributor number of gmaps come from? Is everyone who added a shop or joke becomes a contributor or is this the google employees only?

It based on the number of local guides.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That includes people who have made like 5 reviews, you should redact that graph as it is heavily skewed and doesn't mean anything unless it is accurate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

All of these graphs don't make a lot of sense. Apple maps is preinstalled on apple devices, so I guess that's why they don't review it. Last time I used gapps on android gmaps was included in all packages except the smallest one, it's also preinstalled on most android devices so I don't understand why some people would review it, but not apple maps on the other platform? On the play store chart, gmaps is only those who doesn't have it preinstalled but downloaded it manually, or it includes everyone?

And comparing 2 lemmy communities by number of subscribers not by active contributors?

It was a good exercise about how to create pie charts in excel, and grats for that OP, but doesn't give a lot of info. I don't want to sound harsh, it's a constructive criticism, keep creating charts! But don' use pie charts for these kind of data. I would be interested in an updated version with more options included, fixed spelling of osm, a bit more explanation and more fitting type of charts.