Organic Maps adds Android Auto speed limits, GeoJSON import, recording track stats, & more
Organic Maps, the open source GPS navigation app, has rolled out an update with several key enhancements for users across platforms. Most notably, Android Auto now displays speed limits during navigation, a feature aimed at improving situational awareness for drivers. The addition of GeoJSON import and track statistics recording extends functionality for all activities, supporting more flexible data integration and tracking.
Following these core upgrades, users can now access OpenStreetMap description tags by entering ?description into the search box, making underlying map data more accessible. On iOS, this release brings the ability to save a bookmark directly on a recorded track and to delete a recording track without needing to save it first, streamlining the recording workflow.
With this update, the user interface and OpenStreetMap editing tools have both benefited from usability improvements and assorted bug fixes. Meanwhile, a crash-on-startup issue affecting some Android devices has been resolved.
Additionally, current OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia map data have been updated, along with support for Seattle’s light rail in the public transport layer. Various minor bug fixes and improvements round out the release, contributing to enhanced stability and performance for all users.
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I'd prefer updates about CoMaps rather than OrganicMaps. As a reminder: CoMaps is a fork of OrganicMaps founded based over concerns regarding the governance and property of OrganicMaps as a project and product.
Sad to see AlternativeTo only cover up news from OrganicMaps, rather than its community fork CoMaps which is doing really great work in the meantime by itself: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-08-31/Release-2025.08.31-CarPlay-is-Available-Improved-Routing/
Hey! We actually also covered several news pieces about CoMaps, including the one you just shared that we posted a while ago. Just a heads-up, you can also send us tips from the app pages about recent news from apps you’d like to see covered. It’s normal that we sometimes miss some interesting updates, but this helps us try to cover more!
Also, as second note, you can also find news from apps you’ve liked in the new “Latest news for you” section on the homepage 😉
Speed limits are often crowd-sourced from observed traffic signs or GPS traces (and rarely from official public data) and often show discrepancies (like only a segment of an highway being modified, so speed limit is not coherent with other highways). Also some conditions may apply (depending of the type and the weight of the vehicle, time of the day or the day of the week, for example) that may not be supported by the app. Autonomous cars are doing a good job at recognizing speed limit signs (which may contradict what the map is showing), but sadly car manufacturers never share data.