CoMaps - Events

CoMaps at FLISoL Córdoba 2026

hello@comaps.app — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Together with UN Maps Community Ambassador Silvina Meritano, CoMaps contributor Bastian attended the 22nd edition of the Festival Latinoamericano Instalación Software Libre in Córdoba, Argentina to give a talk titled Mapear para y desde la comunidad: usar y contribuir a OpenStreetMap. In it, they covered what OpenStreetMap is, why we need it, and different ways of how to make use of the data in OSM and how to contribute to it.

As part of this, they showcased CoMaps as a simple way of accessing OSM data offline, including for navigation, and demonstrated how CoMaps can be used to easily make contributions back to OSM, to help improve maps for everyone.

You can find their collected resources, along with the slide deck online.

CoMaps at esLibre 2026

hello@comaps.app — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

CoMaps contributors and volunteers Diego Miguel Lozano and Álex attended the 2026 edition of esLibre, which took place on April 17/18 in Melide in Spain. Together they presented CoMaps in their presentation CoMaps Aplicación de mapas offline centrada en la privacidad, talking about the history of the project, how it is governed, its features and the code base of the project.

You can find their slide deck on Codeberg, along with the source code to edit and create them! If you want to build on those slides, they are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license.

CoMaps at HOTOSM Tech & Innovation Working Group

hello@comaps.app — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

CoMaps contributors and volunteers Anton and Bastian joined monthly meeting of the Tech & Innovation Working Group of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap on April 14 and presented the work of CoMaps. In their brief talk CoMaps: a community-made map app for Android, iOS & Linux, they gave some background about how CoMaps came together as a community, the applications themselves, and how some of the newly developed features of CoMaps could be used in humanitarian settings.

You can find their slide deck online. The source code to edit and create them those slides is on Codeberg. If you want to build on those slides, they are released under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International license.