Organic Maps
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License: | Apache-2.0 License (for app) and custom non-free/open license for map data (free of charge) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms: | Android 5.0+, iOS 12.0+, iPadOS 12.0+, macOS 11.0+, visionOS 1.0+, and Linux | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Version: | 2025.05.20 releases (2025-05-20) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Languages: | English, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese
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Website: | organicmaps.app | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source code: | organicmaps/organicmaps | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Programming languages: | C++, Java, Objective-C, and Swift | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Privacy-focused, open-source, free and fast offline maps without ads. |
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Organic Maps is an satnav-style navigation app for walkers, drivers, and cyclists. The app offers worldwide offline maps based on OpenStreetMap data, and navigation with privacy - no location tracking, no data collection, and no ads. Most features operate without a data connection, ideal for travel on distant hiking trails or locations with poor connections. While the app itself is free and open-source software, the maps that Organic Map uses are only released under a custom license.[1] Similarly, the software to generate those maps is not made public any longer.[2]
In 2025, Organic Maps was forked by the community due to concerns about the project's governance, transparency, and the potential for shareholder profit at the expense of the community. An alternative app and project CoMaps was formed.
Features
- Offline maps based on OpenStreetMap data
- Cycling routes, subway routes, hiking trails, and walking paths
- Contour lines, elevation profiles, peaks, and slopes
- Turn-by-turn walking, cycling, and car navigation with voice guidance
- Fast offline search on the map
- 3D buildings
- Opening hours
- Bookmarks
- Dark mode
- Editing points of interest in OpenStreetMap
- Layers for hiking/cycling as of August 2025[3]
Privacy policy
The app developers pledge to only request the bare minimum of permissions necessary[4] to deliver the offline maps, and to ensure:
- No ads
- No tracking
- No data collection
- No registration
- No spam emails
- No bloatware
Developer
Organic Maps was founded by Viktor Govako, Alexander Borsuk and Roman Tsisyk in early 2021 as a fork of MAPS.ME. Back then the new Maps.Me owner continued development as a closed source, so the codebase was forked to create Organic Maps, focusing on privacy, performance, and community.
Development support
- Since beginning by donations[5]
- By several institutional sponsors[6]
- Since Nov. 2023 by affiliate program ("KAYAK" button to hotels for meta search and room booking)[7]
Community
- GitHub issue tracker
- Zulip
@organicmaps@fosstodon.org
@organicmaps@mastodon.social
#organicmaps:matrix.org
- Telegram Group
- Telegram Group (French)
- Telegram Group (Russian)
External links
- Official Website
- GitHub
- Organic Maps on FDroid
- Organic Maps on Google Play
- Organic Maps on Apple App Store
- BBBike.org extract service offers Organic Maps maps for an area of your choosing, weekly updates
References
- ↑ https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/DATA_LICENSE.txt
- ↑ https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/11249
- ↑ https://organicmaps.app/news/2025-08-09/420/
- ↑ Tsisyk, Roman (28 May 2021). “Comment on: mention that it is a maps.me fork in Readme”. organicmaps/organicmaps. GitHub. Archived from the original on 14 January 2025 .
- ↑ https://organicmaps.app/donate
- ↑ https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps#who-is-paying-for-the-development
- ↑ https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/releases/tag/2023.11.17-17-android