in the past, there’s been a few CoMaps-related threads to announce features that relate to editing/interacting with OSM (e.g. about solving notes and support for check_date). We discussed that going forward it might be nicer to just have a mega-thread to post related updates. That way we don’t spam the forum and there’s a single thread to follow.
And with that to one of the recent OSM-editing related features: The OSM-editing features of CoMaps now support marking businesses as vacant/disused since the last release:
In terms of OSM-related updates: On Android, CoMaps now supports adding different types of charging sockets for chargers of electric vehicles in the OSM editor:
With the 2025.12.19 release, there have been some more improvements to the OSM editor and OSM-related features.
Beyond cleaning up unused code, this includes:
checking the length limit for OSM tags in value validation
set the priority of buildings to be lower than all POIs in the CoMaps changeset comments
Improved the warnings about outdated maps
Not really an OSM-related feature, but still of note for many people here I think as it relates to the maps at large: In order to make CoMaps be less dependent on the CoMaps-infrastructure, Android users can now self-host the map files, inside the Android app one can give a custom map server address that will serve the files instead of the CoMaps CDN.
Please note: For now, the Android app still only accepts files that are identical to the “official” ones though, to ensure compatibility and avoid people running potentially malicious files, but folks are already thinking about how to allow people to make customized files too (if that’s something you feel could contribute, please join the CoMaps community channels )
One can now add some POI types that require more than one OSM tag, e.g. artwork (sculptures, paintings..), tourism information (visitor centers, guideposts, maps..), communication masts, vending machines (tickets, coffee, sweets..), nail salons, swimming sport centers, wind generators, outdoor shelters (bivouac huts, lean-to..), places of worship (buddhist temples, churches, mosques..)
More POI types could be marked as vacant/disused, e.g. pharmacy, post office, bank, estate agent, casino, etc.
The tagging now supports the OSM healthcare and education tagging both in the map generation and in the editor
In this version, most OSM-related changes relate to displaying information from OSM, but maybe it motivates some folks to add those where missing! In particular, the changes are:
Show charge amounts for usage of facilities, e.g. “2 EUR/100l water”
Show population of cities, towns, etc. when they’re selected
