Maps app planning overview

[jancborchardt]

This came out of a lunch meeting at the Nextcloud Conf, 1 October 2025. Participants: @julien-nc @emberfiend @kra-mo @marcoambrosini @jamiethecat @susnux @mahibi @jancborchardt

Feel free to link related issues where it makes sense. :)

High priority

Clear focal points of Nextcloud Maps.

• [ ] Point of interest search and metadata viewing
• [ ] Favorites
  • [ ] Sync favorites with other apps: GNOME Maps, CoMaps, OsmAnd, Organic Maps, etc. https://github.com/nextcloud/maps/issues/92
  • [ ] TODO: Reach out to those apps and see what they would need from our API, rather than just handing them an API that might not make sense
• [ ] Routing, incl public transport (using Transitous?)
• [ ] Elements from Nextcloud on the map: photos, contacts, (calendar events)
• [ ] Maps embedded in other apps: Photos sidebar, Contacts detail view, Calendar events detail view
• [ ] (Simple editing: Easy way to add opening hours?)

Medium priority

Partly things we already have, but are outside of the scope of the first focus of a Maps app so could be descoped or realigned.

• [ ] Show ratings & reviews (from Yelp, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Google Maps, etc.)
  • [ ] Or integrate an open rating platform, if it exists. Discussion happening at https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/11111
• [ ] Device tracking ("Find my")
• [ ] Collaborative maps (like Google My Maps, @tacruc had a concept)
• [ ] Placing photos on map
• [ ] GPS track display

Lower priority

Either cause they are less common use cases, or would rather be done using specified apps, or mobile apps.

• [ ] Editing maps – for now a link to the node on OpenStreetMap will have to be enough.
• [ ] Share a layer of a map or a combination
• [ ] GPS track recording (there are mobile maps apps for this)
• [ ] Share your location (can be done in Talk)
• [ ] Filter photos shown based on subfolders
• [ ] Filter contacts shown based on groups
• [ ] Time filter slider