GNOME Maps

GNOME Maps is an open source maps application specifically designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It provides users with an easy way to search for a specific location anywhere around the world.

With this software you will be able to search locations, get directions, pin specific areas, bookmark favorite places, check-in on specific locations, and much more. It includes a very detailed map of the world, powered by the MapQuest and Open Street Map projects.

Designed for GNOME

Its user interface is very familiar, especially to GNOME users, and allows you to quickly view your current location, based on the Wi-Fi network used, as well as to switch between Street and Satellite views.

Forthcoming versions of the GNOME Maps application will include various attractive features like address lookup (reverse geocoding), routing, public transportation, and even the popular "Check In" or "Where's my friends?" functions.

Getting started with GNOME Maps

The map can be easily navigated using the zoom in and zoom out buttons displayed on the map at all times, as well as the mouse wheel. In addition, you can double left-click anywhere on the map to zoom in.

Right clicking anywhere on the map, will display two functions. The first one is called What’s here? and, if clicked, will display the first most important thing in the respective area. The second one is called I’m here! and, if clicked, it will immediately create a pin on that location.

A search bar is also provided on the main toolbar, allowing users to search for a specific location. If one or multiple locations with approximately the same name are found, they will be displayed under the search bar.

Bottom line

All in all, GNOME Maps is the first modern and easy-to-use maps application that was ever created for an open source desktop environment, as well as for the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem.

What is new in this release:

• Don't spin up CI environments for master and tags
• Added/updated/fixed translations
• Turkish
• Lithuanian
• Swedish
• French
• German
• Polish
• Slovenian

What is new in version 3.29.3:

• Stop using notifications on top of the map view as it doesn't work on Wayland
• Add OARS tags
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Chinese (Taiwan)
• Occitan
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese (China)

What is new in version :

• Show tile provider and OSM attribution in the About dialog
• Install appstream metadata to non-deprecated location
• Update Flatpak manifest to build libgweather with Meson
• Added/updated/fixed translations
• Icelandic
• Indonesian
• Czech

What is new in version 3.27.2:

• Changes since 3.27.1:
• Fix Maps to be available as an option for "Open with another application" for geo shape layer files
• Fix JS warnings about redundant function arguments and similar things
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Norwegian bokmal
• Hindi
• Croatian
• Friulian
• Czech
• Slovak
• German

What is new in version 3.27.1:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Basque
• Catalan
• Swedish
• Italian
• Danish
• Brittish English
• Dutch

What is new in version 3.26.0:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Basque
• Catalan
• Swedish
• Italian
• Danish
• Brittish English
• Dutch

What is new in version 3.25.4:

• Show feedback when no search results were found
• Update Flatpak manifest for build changes in geocode-glib
• Various bugfixes
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Friulian
• Hungarian
• Spanish
• Kazakh
• German
• Catalan
• Indonesian
• Slovak

What is new in version 3.25.3:

• Added keyboard shortcuts for switching between street and aerial view
• Added keyboard shortcut for opening layer files
• Remember the last used mode of transportation for routing (also now default to walking on first run)
• For transit results, don't reset previous list when no later or earlier alternatives are found
• Also print coordinates in debug printout from GeoClue
• Show and support editing for additional OpenStreetMap tags (religion and information on availability of toilets)
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Friulian
• German
• Spanish
• Indonesian
• Polish
• Hungarian
• Kazakh
• Lithuanian

What is new in version 3.24.3:

• Fix OpenStreetMap editing in Flatpaks (update librest build dependency)
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Arabic

What is new in version 3.24.0:

• Changes since 3.23.92:
• Fix running when gnome-online-accounts isn't available.
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Russian
• Turkish
• Slovak
• Latvian
• Italian
• Japanese

What is new in version 3.23.4:

• Removed usage of deprecated gtk_menu_popup() function.
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Finnish
• Spanish

What is new in version 3.23.3:

• Enable easy building as a flatpak from within GNOME Builder.
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Russian
• Kazakh
• Swedish
• Hungarian

What is new in version 3.23.2:

• Use Unicode in translatable strings
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Friulian
• Czech
• Hungarian
• German
• Polish

What is new in version 3.23.1:

• Fixed a typo and a formatting issue
• Handle a plain 00:00-24:00 opening hour specification as being "always open" for POIs
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Norwegian bokmal

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Persian
• Italian
• Scottish Gaelic
• Ukrainian

What is new in version 3.20.3 / 3.22.0 Beta 2:

• Changes since 3.21.90:
• Fix bug where you could not type + or - in the searchbar
• Added Amisha, Marcus and Mattias as maintainers in the doap file
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• French
• Serbian
• Slovenian
• Polish

What is new in version 3.20.2:

• This is an important release! With this release we switch from using the MapQuest open API for fetching tiles. And instead we start using Mapbox API. Using an community API key from Mapbox.
• Mapbox is a company with a commitment to Open source. And provides infrastructure that will allow us to do more with Maps. We are accessing
• the Mapbox API through a GNOME proxy that will allow us to easier switch our tile provider/URI in the future. Big thanks to Mattias Bengtsson who made this solution happen. Thank you, and sorry for our outage.
• Changes since 3.20.1:
• Change tile URIs to use Mapbox, through proxy
• Fix escaping of tel: URIs
• Adapt colors of instuction when printing routes
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Turkish
• Norwegian bokmal
• Indonesian

What is new in version 3.19.2:

• Fix GeoJSON filling of polygons in polygons
• Add simpler keyboard shortcuts for zoom
• Fix width of send-to dialog
• Add open with browser to send-to dialog that will open a location on OpenStreetMap web
• Handle the 'geo' URI scheme, this will allow us to handle geu: URIs in for instance the browser or in Polari
• Go to latest visited view on start up
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Czech
• Portuguese
• zh_CN
• Norwegian bokmal
• Spanish
• Turkish
• Finnish
• Lithuanian
• German

What is new in version 3.18.0:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Spanish
• Italian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Persian
• Korean
• Czech
• Russian
• Hungarian
• Turkish

What is new in version 3.17.1:

• Switch to template for more UI files
• Do not use intltool to translate GSettings schema
• Improve height of favorites popover

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Fix links for Wikipedia
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Tajik
• Serbian
• German
• Indonesian
• Basque
• Italian

What is new in version 3.14.2 / 3.16 Beta 1:

• Show notification with link to privacy panel when location service is off
• Only show user location marker when location service is enabled
• Added a 'show-location' activation action, to show contacts in Maps.
• Add contacts with geocodable addresses to the placeStore to allow completion in search
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Lithuanian
• Hebrew
• Greek
• Slovak
• Russian
• Spanish
• German
• Czech
• Norweigian bokmA¥l
• Esperanto

What is new in version 3.15.4:

• Smarter filtering in favorites menu
• Make opening hours translatable
• Convert to "package.js" application convention
• Add runtime dependency checks
• Refresh place meta data if stale
• Switch to new full color mark-location icon
• Zoom in and center map marker on double-click
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Hungarian
• Friulian
• Indonesian
• Basque
• Greek
• Czech
• Ukrainian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Galician
• Spanish
• Russian
• German

What is new in version 3.15.3:

• Remove 'I am here' menu item from context menu
• Improve geoclue interaction somewhat
• Use Overpass API to add meta data to map bubbles
• Use HTTPS for GraphHopper service
• Add drag-n-drop to route entries
• Add check-in possibility to user location bubble (Facebook/Foursquare)
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Hebrew
• Czech
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Spanish
• Hungarian
• Romanian

What is new in version 3.15.2:

• Add support for imperial units
• Use proper GtkButtons for zoom control
• Add a 'No network view' to show when Maps is disconnected
• Added accelrator to grab focus on search
• Added accelerator to open route planner.
• Added route button to MapBubble
• Enable panning by keyboard
• Add extra info to search result bubbles:
• Popuplation
• Wikipedia
• Opening hours
• Wheelchair accesability
• Improve the UI of the search result popover
• Add 'share' button to MapBubbles to allow user to share location to weather and clocks.
• Add favorites handling to main window and MapBubbles.

What is new in version 3.14.2:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Slovak
• Friulian
• Dutch

What is new in version 3.14.1:

• Fix issue where icons did not recolor on dark theme
• Added/updated/fixed translations: Italian, Chinese (Taiwan), zh_CN, Nepali

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Turkish
• Nepali
• Finnish
• Danish
• Polish
• Ukrainian
• Serbian

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

• Improve sidebar alignments
• Fix default transportation mode bug
• Make coordinates in entry editable
• Do not forget route on sidebar hide
• Hopefully a fix for non-consistent build error
• Hopefully a fix for elusive segfault in sidebar
• Default focus on entry in sidebar reveal
• Fix for theme problem with instruction list
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Assamese
• Galician
• Hebrew
• Spanish
• Brazilian Portugese
• Indonesian
• Greek
• Russian
• German
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Catalan
• Catalan (Valencian)
• Czech
• Punjabi
• Korean
• Slovak
• Lithuanian
• Hungarian
• Slovenian

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 2:

• Add high contrast icon of logo
• Use kinetic scroll mode
• Set correct desktopId for geoclue
• Send correct argv/argc to GApplication
• Fix bug where selecting from completion nullified placeEntry
• Add content rich map markers and map bubbles based on GtkPopover
• Add tooltips to GtkHeaderButtons
• Add support for via points in routing
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Spanish
• Traditional Chinese
• Japanese
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Galician
• Norwegian bokmal
• Czech
• Catalan (Valencian)
• Lithuanian
• Assamese

What is new in version 3.13.4:

• Fix sidebar margin for LTR
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Hebrew
• Russian
• Spanish
• Hungarian
• Brazilian Portuguese

What is new in version 3.13.3:

• Added sidebar for route searching
• Fix styling of popovers
• Fix cleanup for make dist
• Fixup AppData file
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Lithuanian

What is new in version 3.12.2:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Greek
• Korean
• Catalan (Valencian)

What is new in version 3.12.1:

• Added padding to main window search entry
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Slovak
• Tajik
• Japanese

What is new in version 3.12.0:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Korean
• Polish
• Punjabi
• Danish
• Aragonese
• Telugu
• Slovenian
• Basque
• German
• Serbian
• Italian

What is new in version 3.12 RC1:

• Enable keyboard navigation in search results popover.
• Make clicking the map grab focus and dismiss on screen keyboard.
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Finnish
• Hebrew
• Ukrainian
• French
• Indonesian
• Portuguese
• Catalan
• Russian
• Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan)
• Lithuanian
• Chinese (China)
• Latvian
• Czech
• Galician
• Brazilian
• Spanish
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Hungarian

What is new in version 3.11.5:

• Much smoother goto animations.
• Avoid a redundant zoom-out at end of goto animations by making use of new geocode-glib and libchamplain API.
• Make Maps work against geoclue 2.1.x and latest gtk+.
• If accuracy area is less than 1, show 'exact' instead of '0 km2'.
• Explicitly specify desired accuracy level to geoclue.
• Update website URL in AppData file.
• Make gnome-maps executable a real binary.
• Update recent added time on re-visits.
• Fix a compiler warning.
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese simplified
• Czech
• Galician
• Hebrew
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Tajik
• Telugu
• Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan)
• Dependency-related changes:
• Require gio-2.0 >= 2.39.3
• Require gjs-1.0 >= 1.39.0
• Require geocode-glib >= 3.11.5 (runtime-only)
• Require libchamplain >= 0.12.6 (runtime-only)

What is new in version 3.11.4:

• Set saner minimum zoom level on the map view.
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Czech
• Malayalam
• Kannada
• Slovak
• Friulian
• German
• Esperanto

What is new in version 3.11.2:

• Default focus on search entry.
• Clearer dconf key descriptions.
• Use Unicode quotation marks and apostrophes.
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Afrikaans
• Arabic
• Basque
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Catalan (Valencian)
• Chinese simplified
• Danish
• Dutch
• Galician
• Greek
• Italian
• Lithuanian
• Malayalam
• Norwegian bokmal
• Persian
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tajik
• Telugu
• Turkish

What is new in version 3.10.2:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Afrikaans
• Arabic
• Catalan (Valencian)
• Chinese simplified
• Greek
• Persian
• Telugu
• Turkish

What is new in version 3.10.0:

• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Arabic
• Assamese
• Catalan
• Esperanto
• Estonian
• German
• Japanese
• Norwegian bokmA¥l
• Portuguese
• Ukranian

What is new in version 3.10 Beta 2:

• Provide an AppData file for GNOME software center.
• Improved search results popup:
• Add a scroll window to not fill screen with results.
• Show place icons when available for user to be able to differentiate between results.
• Show a spinner when search is on going.
• Show matched part of results in bold fonts.
• Add a context menu with two options:
• "What's here?": Finds the name of the place at cursor position.
• "I'm here": Corrects/changes Maps' idea of where user is currently.
• Gracefully handle markup in search results.
• Fix build against latest gnome-common.
• Added/updated/fixed translations:
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Czech
• Esperanto
• Galician
• Hungarian
• Irish
• Polish
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Tajik
• Dependency-related changes:
• Adapt to, and depend on GeoClue >= 1.99.3.

Requirements:

• GNOME