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laem

Cartes.app won't cover all the use case perfectly covered by these apps.

E.g. for car navigation, we do not have this on our roadmap. A navigation mode would not be difficult to launch as a v1, but it would miss all the Android Auto and similar optimizations that Organic Maps is working on for years !

The best thing would be to direct the user to them.

Should we open a link with A->B in the URL ? How does it work ?

What about other features of these apps not covered, how to inform the user about them ?

See our wiki entry about Organic Maps #831

1. laem

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2. laem

   @westnordost if you think of some ways to direct cartes.app users to StreetComplete, that would be cool ! I don't have any precise idea but we can probably find some.

3. Ghost

   Me neither.

4. laem

   • The first step is done : a comaps style in cartes.app. See !1699 to make it even better
5. laem

   @jeanbaptistec, do you know if it's easy to open an itinerary link from a website to open Comaps on mobile ?

   From cartes.app, it's easy to download the GPX. But then, opening them in Comaps on my Android has multiple UX problems :

   • the GPX is added as a favorite but the map doesn't zoom on it
   • the GPX becomes a trace, not an itinerary : what we want here is for Comaps to handle navigation from A to B with the chosen mode (car, walk, bike), including intermediate points if possible

   Is there some kind of Android intent URL that would trigger this ? Is it easy to implement on your side ?

6. jeanbaptisteC

   You can find more details about our api here

   About gpx, zoom is applied only when users select it in the list, because I think it's not easy to manage to zoom on places or tracks if users import multiple tracks or favorites during the same import Use gpx like a route is the most asked feature https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/251 but for now anyone members or contributors work on this feature.

7. laem

   Oh yeah, found it ! https://comaps.at/api

   Done ! For now, we'll limit this link to Comaps only, as per the idea that cartes.app is for the general public, whereas Osmand is more for more technical users.

   

8. laem

   Demo here : https://bsky.app/profile/cartes.app/post/3mfruld7m7k2h

9. laem

   @jeanbaptisteC je crois qu'ouvrir une fois après l'autre un intent fait planter Comaps.

10. jeanbaptisteC

    Ca fonctionne bien de mon côté t'as un exemple?

11. laem

    Linked : https://codeberg.org/comaps/url-processor/issues/16