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“Trails may not be visible on the digital map, but things like roads, rivers, ponds, lakes, and other natural features are. The app allows you to take a photo of a physical map in the […]
“Something you don’t see every day: a sports tech company actually giving away premium features for free. Suunto’s route-planning tool lets you create and download GPX files without even creating an account. No paywall, no […]
OpenRouteService (ORS) is an open source route planner service that leverages OpenStreetMap data to provide a variety of routing and spatial analysis services. It actually uses a forked and modified version of the GraphHopper routing […]
“Born out of governance concerns in Organic Maps, CoMaps has been created with a goal of restoring transparency, community control, and privacy-focused navigation. It’s a fully open source navigation app that works offline and doesn’t […]
Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travellers, tourists, hikers, drivers, and cyclists based on OpenStreetMap data created by the community. It is a privacy-focused, open-source fork of Maps.me app […]
A new feature spotted by SmartDroid allows the Android version of the app to use Bluetooth beacons to track your location in areas where GPS signals typically can’t reach. These beacons transmit Bluetooth signals that […]
Google Maps will avoid directing motorists through crime hotspots, Pretoria FM reports. This comes after tourism minister Patricia de Lille and Google country director Alistair Mokoena signed a memorandum of understanding at Parliament on Monday. […]
Waze might look like “just another navigation app” at first glance, but in reality, the Google-owned software provides a more advanced feature package that you won’t find elsewhere. The first thing you must know is […]
No, it’s not an April Fools’ Joke (which is what I thought at first reading). “Cosmic-ray muons fall equally across the Earth and always travel at the same speed regardless of what matter they traverse, […]
Google showed off a new mode for Google Maps that will display the route on top of the existing 3D map models. You’ll be able to scroll through directions, with lines and arrows visible above […]
