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Organic Maps is where it's at!
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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Organic Maps (Unofficial)
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Organic Maps is a free open-source 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 back from 2021.
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You cannot copy anything from Google Maps. You seed to source data either from public sources or colle~~l~~ct it first-hand.
It's kind of like Wikipedia, you have to cite the original source (State or council maps) rather than a 3rd party source.
The map data for my suburb is all kinds of wrong on Google Maps, there's a park around the corner from me which is marked as a house for starters, blindly copying that into OSM would be a disservice.
Not necessarily original source - you can use aerial imagery from Bing, for example.
The actual requirement is actually a legal one. The data must be public domain or otherwise compatible with their license.