Murena Maps is here in beta! Try it, and help us shape v1

Good afternoon,

I confirm it works again for me too.

Another improvment that came to my mind. Would it be possible in the search bar to specify the type of object returned.

For exemple the same name could be given to a metro station, a bus station and a district. A small icon before the result would help a lot. ^^

Have a nice day!

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It’s Alive! Now it works perfect. Is incredible, quick, and accurate! Thanks!

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Kudos for good software.

I have not read all post so I may duplicate.

I am use murena map and I found two issues/bugs.

  1. I have to refresh my curent position befor start navigatin. If not refresh arrow stay in start positon and do not fallow by my GPS position.
  2. This is wired but repetabled. During using, curent destination is cheanged for previous destination. Usecase. Start using map, but in the midle I change destination. After a few minutes my new destination is back to first one.

I switched to using /e/os a couple oft weeks ago and since then I am trying to use the phone without any google apps. That made realize how often and for which use cases I was always using the Google Maps App. I realized that because the current native Maps App on /e/os is very limited compared to Google Maps.

On use case that turns out to be really valuable to me is looking up information like opening hours or contact info of stores, doctors, restaurants and such. As I do not have the overview about what Murena Maps has as vision, I’d like to ask: will this be integrated into Murena Maps? What is planned in thia regard?

I’ve seen that partly such info is already in place but only very limited

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It is true that Google Maps is difficult to beat as a single app. But note that you can install GMaps WV on Fdroid which allows to access google maps without logging into a google account. You can then use it as google maps to search addresses etc and then share (e.g using geoshare app) the location to start navigation in Murena Maps or any other map app (GMaps WV has no proper navigation feature). You need 2 apps instead of one but you then get nearly all google maps features while preserving your privacy. This works well for me.

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Murena maps already includes opening hours for all Points Of Interest that have that data filled in osm database. This opening hour data base is improving by the month as many businesses get aware that OpenStreetMap is now as important as googleMaps for customers to find them.

If you find out that opening hour data is missing on a shop that you like, then install Osmand~ from the open source tab of app lounge, inside Osmand~ install the OpenStreeMap editing Extension, click on you shop in the map, click on Actions, then modify POI, fill-in carefully the opening hours, upload to osm data base with the button, wait for Murena maps to pull the latest osm map database (a few weeks) and you will get your opening hours , and everybody else will also happily benefit from it :slight_smile:

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I am trying to find which source of traffic data is used but cannot find it in the code :smiley:

Could someone help me to find it ? Thanks !

my FP3 became hot using Magic Earth,
But became VERY VERY hot using Murena Maps 1.0.0-beta-4

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Thank you @kilou. Will look into this.

Thanks for the insights @GabrielT. I have been using OSMAnd a couple of years ago but never participated in adding data to it. Might give it a try. But first I am confused to see different Apps available OSMAnd and OSMAnd~. What’s the difference? But maybe this is off topic here.

OsmAnd is the restricted cost-free version published by the makers in the Play Store.
OsmAnd~ is the unrestricted cost-free version published by the makers in F-Droid. (In the Play Store the same unrestricted App is named OsmAnd+ and costs money.)

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Regarding the excellent GMAps Wv and OSmand~, it is best to download them from the Open-source tab of AppLounge instead of going through Fdroid.

In the end Applounge fetches the apps from Frdoid, but doing everything from Applounge is simpler, one app store that updates every app, no mater its source. Thanks Murena /e/ OS for implementing such great features.

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Easiest to start contributing to OSM is:
https://streetcomplete.app/

Have fun!

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Fancy! Nice gamification. Just made my first contribution.

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the MR you show is about the represenation of traffic data (color of no/low/heavy traffic on the polyline) - not the data itself, that’s already there. Afaik the source is a valhalla instance, you should be able to see it in the settings too. In the code it’s set to KEY_VALHALLA_BASE_URL

Yes thanks. I realized that a few days ago, the real Valhalla instance seems to be the online server https://about.maps.earth/ / Headway. Headway aggregates OpenTripPlanner (for transit, pedestrian and cycle routing tile generation) as well as some search engines for addresses, but I was not able to find what is the source of traffic that this Valhalla instance is provided with.

I could only find any potential source, just this general description of how the data is formatted Live traffic incidents - Valhalla Docs

The Ultimate Guide to Traffic in Valhalla – Part 1: Historical Traffic | Christian Beiwinkel

I guess there is an agreement between Headway and Murena but it would be interesting to know how the traffic data is generated. Regarding transit data, it is more straightforward.