Meet Murena Maps

When did you last stop to ask a stranger for your way? Quite some time ago, right?

Today, thanks to different map applications, we’re used to easily finding addresses without relying on physical maps, street signs, or passengers that hopefully come by when we need them.
These applications should not only be precise, but also find optional routes quickly, instead of keeping us turning in roundabouts until we feel dizzy, like devices from 2010.

Some map applications might perform well, but do not respect your privacy. 
Today it doesn’t even surprise us anymore that we can zoom into other people’s gardens, or that Google teams are such fans of us that they analyze our average driving speed to add this information to our consumer profile*.

On the other hand, it is difficult to find a transparent, open-source, open-data map that doesn’t require downloading many GBs of maps before you can use it, which limits our ability to improvise, find points of interest and costs us time.

Our team and community members wished to have a combination of both: a map application that’s easy to use, reliable, works out of the box immediately without the need for downloads, and still doesn’t make millions by selling our habits and other private data. By default, our company does not track or profile you.

At the moment, our developers are working on Murena Maps, a user-friendly, intuitive map application that respects your privacy.

Murena Maps, soon available for devices running /e/OS, will help you to…

• Search destinations
• Plan your trips
• Navigate once on the way
• Synchronize locations and routes from your PC to your phone

Murena Maps works online, maps-downloads are not required.

Listen to Romain, our engineering manager, presenting Murena Maps at FOSDEM.

*Shoshana Zuboff in “Surveillance Capitalsm”: https://youtu.be/hIXhnWUmMvw