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Today we will talk about a project Open source and completely free called uMap. It is undoubtedly the site for you if you have decided to move away from the entire ecosystem Google but you still miss thealternative to Google MyMaps. We have searched far and wide but we haven't found any other alternatives, so here is an ad hoc article just for uMap!
uMap – the alternative to Google MyMaps
One of the biggest difficulties you have when you finally decide to delete Google from one's life is to find validity alternatives to all their products. Some of these have become thealternative par excellence to Google For example DuckDuckGo and, in our opinion, also ProtonMail.
For other products, however, the solutions may be a little more difficult. For example, we looked for alternatives to Google Photos and we have seen that, although you can find something really good, there is nothing that can actually match it.
Let's talk a little about uMap
Today we therefore want to talk about uMap. In our opinion it is the true and only one alternative to Google MyMaps and, needless to say, it is too Open source! As you can imagine, it uses the maps of OpenStreetMaps. We have tested it thoroughly and find it truly wonderful. You can log in using your account OpenStreetMaps, Of Github you hate Bitbucket. You can then create maps with a variety of features, preferences and options far superior to Google MyMaps. To speed up the passage you can also import all yours maps from MyMaps! To give you a very simple example, we have created one with the collection of used oil in Milan, so you can see its potential:
Give it a serious chance and in our opinion you won't be disappointed at all. If you are looking for a real alternative to Google MyMaps uMap it is without a doubt the one for you!
Obviously you can easily import and export all maps, this will make your life easier if you are coming from Google My Maps. It will be enough for you export your map and subsequently import it into uMap. Just a few minutes and you will be able to see and edit your maps!
Downside: unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any smartphone application and as a webapp it works well but isn't excellent.
Useful links
- Nine tutorials in Italian for uMap translated by Nilocram;
- Short tutorial on how to create a custom map with uMap;
- Here another tutorial Of Ciro Spataro.
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