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Cartes means "maps" in French. The project began late 2023 with the aim to provide a French alternative to Google Maps. Cartes.app is a Web-only map app. No time is spent validating the app on the stores and their obscure rules that make Organic Maps disappear randomly, be it Google's store but also on F-droid and its abrupt privacy rules.

The Organic Maps team is now recommanding the use of Obtainium, among other commercial stores like Huawei's. We believe this is ridiculous, the Web is the universal Web store, no installation step required, and it is modern enough to offer most modern map services to users. Including an arrow showing the direction of the device, a Web-first done in a few hours of development : our guess is that no one believed it possible before.
[The Organic Maps team is now recommanding the use of Obtainium](https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/wiki/Installing-Organic-Maps-from-GitHub-using-Obtainium), among other commercial stores like Huawei's. We believe this is ridiculous, the Web is the universal Web store, no installation step required, and it is modern enough to offer most modern map services to users. Including an arrow showing the direction of the device, a Web-first done in a few hours of development : our guess is that no one believed it possible before.

We need good offline maps of course, e.g. for travelling and hiking, but we also need a standard modern online Web map.

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## Why should you trust us ?

I've been building 100 % open source projects for the French public digital services (BetaGouv) for almost 10 years now, building the official pay check and social contributions simulator mon-entreprise.urssaf.fr (1 million monthly visits), followed by the official carbon footprint calculator nosgestesclimat.fr (2 million simulations), both based on a new programming language dedicated to public rules-as-code models, publi.codes actively used and developed in 2024. I've also developped [multiple side projects](https://github.com/laem).
I've been building 100 % open source projects for the French public digital services (BetaGouv) for almost 10 years now, building the official pay check and social contributions simulator [mon-entreprise.urssaf.fr](https://mon-entreprise.urssaf.fr/) (1 million monthly visits), followed by the official carbon footprint calculator [nosgestesclimat.fr](https://nosgestesclimat.fr/) (2 million simulations), both based on a new programming language dedicated to public rules-as-code models, [publi.codes](https://publi.codes/) actively used and developed in 2024. I've also developped [multiple side projects](https://github.com/laem).

## Map technologies are mature

Open source map and mobility technologies have evolved so much that we think what was not possible in 2010 is now feasible. Maplibre, MapTiler, PMtiles, Web sensors, Europe's transit open data directive, BRouter, Valhalla, Motis, are all awesome technologies that are missing state of the art UIs.
Open source map and mobility technologies have evolved so much that we think what was not possible in 2010 is now feasible. [Maplibre](https://maplibre.org/), [MapTiler](https://www.maptiler.com/), [PMtiles](https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/), [Web sensors](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Sensor_APIs), Europe's transit open data directive, [BRouter](https://brouter.de/), [Valhalla](https://valhalla.github.io/valhalla/), [Motis](https://motis-project.de/), are all awesome technologies that are missing state of the art UIs.

## Collaborating with other initiatives

While we were releasing the 0.2 and 0.3 versions of Cartes this spring, the French map administration "IGN" released their new mobile app, also 100 % open source (the law makes it mandatory). Their app is mobile only, and lacks bike and transit itineraries, but we've already talked about working together, as we have with Android distributions. We've also built the export of itineraries to GPX to let the user freely use Organic Maps or Osmand offline on their phone, and we'd like to talk with them in the beginning of the next year.
While we were releasing the 0.2 and 0.3 versions of Cartes this spring, the French map administration "IGN" released [their new mobile app](https://www.ign.fr/telechargez-application-cartographique-cartes-ign), also 100 % open source (the law makes it mandatory). Their app is mobile only, and lacks bike and transit itineraries, but we've already talked about working together, as we have with Android distributions. We've also built the export of itineraries to GPX to let the user freely use Organic Maps or Osmand offline on their phone, and we'd like to talk with them in the beginning of the next year.

As a good example of using new technologies, see [Cartes's integration of the French public Street View alternative](https://cartes.app/?rue=oui&panoramax=663def1f-517f-4a9e-bbcf-1fc45e944710#15.62/47.213967/-1.534933), Panoramax. We explain this collaboration in French in this [blog post](https://cartes.app/blog/street-view-france).
As a good example of using new technologies, see [Cartes's integration of the French public Street View alternative](https://cartes.app/?rue=oui&panoramax=663def1f-517f-4a9e-bbcf-1fc45e944710#15.62/47.213967/-1.534933), [Panoramax](https://panoramax.fr/). We explain this collaboration in French in this [blog post](https://cartes.app/blog/street-view-france).

## A unique political context

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## How does Cartes compare to other map projects ?

One can view Cartes as OrganicMaps' or OsmAnd's effort, but for the Web. It aims to be the interface that lots of OSM contributors are dreaming of for OSM, complementary to the bare bones openstreetmap.org interface that was never really built for anything else that _contributing_ to OSM, not using it.
One can view Cartes as [OrganicMaps](https://organicmaps.app/)' or [OsmAnd](https://osmand.net/)'s effort, but for the Web. It aims to be the interface that lots of OSM contributors are dreaming of for OSM, complementary to the bare bones [openstreetmap.org](https://www.openstreetmap.org) interface that was never really built for anything else that _contributing_ to OSM, not using it.

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