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Organic Maps

Organic Maps is a privacy-first offline maps & GPS app for hiking, cycling, biking, and driving. Absolutely free. No ads. No tracking. Developed with love by the open-source community. Powered by OpenStreetMap data.

Features

Organic Maps is the ultimate companion app for travellers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists:

Detailed offline maps with places that don't exist on other maps, thanks to OpenStreetMap
Cycling 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
Bookmarks and tracks import and export in KML, KMZ & GPX formats
Dark Mode to protect your eyes
Countries and regions don't take a lot of space
Free and open-source

Why Organic?

Organic Maps is pure and organic, made with love:

Respects your privacy
Saves your battery
No unexpected mobile data charges

Organic Maps is free from trackers and other bad stuff:

No ads
No tracking
No data collection
No phoning home
No annoying registration
No mandatory tutorials
No noisy email spam
No push notifications
No crapware
~~No pesticides~~ Purely organic!

The Android application is verified by the Exodus Privacy Project:

The iOS application is verified by TrackerControl for iOS:

Organic Maps doesn't request excessive permissions to spy on you:

At Organic Maps, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right:

Organic Maps is an indie community-driven open-source project
We protect your privacy from Big Tech's prying eyes
Stay safe no matter where you are

Reject surveillance - embrace your freedom.

Give Organic Maps a try!

Who is paying for the development?

The app is free for everyone, so we rely on donations. Please donate at organicmaps.app/donate to support us!

Beloved institutional sponsors below have provided targeted grants to cover some infrastructure costs and fund development of new selected features:

	The Search & Fonts improvement project has been funded through NGI0 Entrust Fund. NGI0 Entrust Fund is established by the NLnet Foundation with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.
	Google backed 5 student's projects in the Google Summer of Code program during 2022 and 2023 programs. Noteworthy projects included Android Auto and Wikipedia Dump Extractor.
	Mythic Beasts ISP provides us two virtual servers with 400 TB/month of free bandwidth to host and serve maps downloads and updates.
	44+ Technologies is providing us with a free dedicated server worth around $12,000/year to serve maps across Vietnam & Southeast Asia.
	FUTO has awarded $1000 micro-grant to Organic Maps in February 2023.

The majority of all expenses have been funded by founders of the project since its inception. The project is far from achieving any sort of financial sustainability. The current level of voluntary donations falls significantly short of covering efforts needed to sustain the app. Any new developments of features are beyond the scope of possibility due to the absence of the necessary financial resources.

Please consider donating if you want to see this open-source project thriving, not dying. There are other ways how to support the project. No coding skills required.

Copyrights

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE, NOTICE, data/copyright.html and .reuse/dep5, for more information.

Governance

See docs/GOVERNANCE.md.

Contributing

If you want to build the project, check docs/INSTALL.md. If you want to help the project, see docs/CONTRIBUTING.md. You can help in many ways, the ability to code is not necessary.

Beta

Please join our beta program, suggest your features, and report bugs:

Feedback

Rate us on the App Store and Google Play.
Star us on Forgejo.
Report bugs or issues to the issue tracker.
Subscribe to our Telegram Channel or to the [matrix] space for updates.
Join our Telegram Group to discuss with other users.
- Присоединяйтесь к нашей русскоязычной группе в Telegram для обратной связи и помощи.
- Diğer kullanıcılarla tartışmak için Telegram Grubumuza katılın.
- Rejoignez notre groupe Telegram pour obtenir de l'aide.
Contact us by email.
Follow our updates in Mastodon, Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram.
- Güncellemelerimizi Instagram üzerinden takip edin.

The Organic Maps community abides by the CNCF code of conduct.