On me demande qui est derrière Maple Maps. C'est moi. Pas d'équipe, pas de bureaux : une maison animée en Alberta, deux jeunes enfants et un mari qui m'aide à trouver le temps. Les débuts, et pourquoi ça ralentit parfois : 🍁 maplemaps.ca/fr/news/2026...

Comment une application de navigation conçue pour les Canadiens est née sur l'ordinateur portable d'une seule personne

Maple Maps est une application de navigation bâtie autour de la sécurité des données, de la souveraineté et des valeurs des Canadiens. Depuis la première ligne de code en septembre, c'est moi, quelque...

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People keep asking who's behind Maple Maps. It's me. No team, no office, just a busy house in Alberta, two little kids, and a husband who helps me find the time. Here's how it started, and why some weeks go slower than I'd like. 🍁 maplemaps.ca/news/2026-11...

How a navigation app built for Canadians started on one person's laptop

Maple Maps is a navigation app built around Canadians' data safety, sovereignty and values. Since the first line of code in September, it's been me, some very useful tools and a patient family. Here's...

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It's been a few weeks since my last post, so here's an update: Maple Maps is still moving full steam ahead. 🍁 The work hasn't slowed, but releases have. Every build waits on Apple's and Google's approval, so I'm holding each release until it's solid before putting it out.

Google has finally approved build 60 for Android users which means CarPlay should be up and running! They did identify a couple issues we’ll need to review but it should still be usable for testers. Thank you for your patience and thanks for sticking with us!

It has been way too long since we've posted an update on here to let you know what's going on with the app so here's what's up:

Pretty frustrated this evening. The newest version that has Android Auto and a lot of new features/fixes has been waiting in review with Google for 4 days. Not sure what's causing it to take so long and we're so excited to get the newest version out to you all. Refreshing the page every few minutes.

Quick update to anyone wondering where things are at for Android. Google finally approved our open beta track with an old version. We've started the process twice now to get a newer version reviewed and found bugs before it was approved so we pulled the release before it could go out.

Small update: First, we're still waiting on Google to finish its review of our Android open beta test which has been holding us back since September 13th. Once it's approved we'll be able to update the app for anyone on iOS or Android to fix a number of known bugs and share new features.

Need your honest opinion: Currently, Maple Maps is only available in Canada with maps of Canada. Should we open it up for our American friends to use too? And if we do, what’s the first place we should rename?

Wow! I hadn't checked in a couple days but we're up to nearly 4000 people who've expressed interest in joining our Beta which is humbling and overwhelming! Not a lot of updates in the last couple days so I'd like to share some important info:

Des itinéraires plus justes, mesurés au Canada plutôt que loués à l'étranger. Les conducteurs peuvent partager la vitesse réelle des routes et les virages fermés par des travaux. Anonyme, désactivé jusqu'à votre oui : maplemaps.ca/fr/news/2026...

Deux questions que l'application vous posera une fois

La prochaine version vous demande deux choses : si l'application peut partager la vitesse de la circulation autour de vous, et si elle peut signaler les virages fermés par des travaux. Les deux sont d...

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More accurate routes, measured in Canada instead of licensed from abroad. Drivers can now share how fast roads really move and which turns construction has closed. Anonymous, off until you say yes, and here is every field it sends: maplemaps.ca/news/2026-09...

Two questions the app will ask you once

The next build asks you two things: whether the app may share how fast the traffic around you is moving, and whether it may report turns that construction has closed. Both are off until you say yes, b...

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There was a brief slow down that might have felt like an outage for some. We were in the process of adding a bunch of new business listings and tweaking map tiles and it caused things to get backlogged. Should be all fixed now and as a bonus you should be getting more results when you search

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Maple Maps 1.0 est sur iPhone et Android aujourd'hui. Le transport en commun partout au Canada : 111 sociétés, arrivées en temps réel, une voix qui dit ce qui vient ensuite. Céline, une voix d'ici. Chaque maison du pays dans la recherche. Trois trajets vraiment différents. maplemaps.ca

The Canadian map now knows every house in the country, every bus that runs past it, and how to say "chemin Giroux". Maple Maps 1.0: transit in 111 cities with real-time arrivals, a French voice named Céline, three routes that are really three. No ads, no data sold, hosted in Canada. maplemaps.ca

Sorry to anyone who experienced some slowness or freezing while using maps this afternoon/evening. Turns out that building and running a national mapping service and adding on live transit data takes some beefier hardware than what we initially set up.

Hey again! Late night update: Today has been all about refinement. We started the day by announcing we've added a lot of new address data to our own database. Throughout today we've been working on cleaning that data against our other sources to remove duplicates.

DEV UPDATE: We've just managed to incorporate a ton of new address data and fine tune how search results are showing up. In addition, search results should come quicker and the closed roads/traffic should be more reliable.

As part of Maple Maps' focus on promoting Canadian businesses with a special focus on local business I'd like to try and make a daily post about another Canadian company that needs our support. Yesterday I shared a video from eSupply Canada, a Canadian Indigenous owned office supply company.

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Running out of midnight oil to burn! Got a bit overexcited and pushed out new build this evening without stress testing it fully. Then we pushed out a new build quickly thinking it fixed the issue but it didn't. Didn't want to leave anyone hanging so we're pushing out one last build tonight.

Build 30 (iOS) and Release 17 (Android) are out for testing. Make sure to update your app so you can get the newest features. TL;DR: - Maps, routing, search, map icons, etc... have been rebuild in house. TomTom is only used for traffic and as a fallback. - Two new much more realistic voices added

A few people have asked by email if there was a way to donate to help cover the costs of getting this project off the ground. Since some of you have asked, I've set up a donation on a Canadian based site in case anyone does want to donate: www.tiing.co/maple-maps/

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Participate to the money pool: Maple maps organized by Mathieu osborne.

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Getting a new build ready to go out feels like a game of whack-a-mole. By the time everything looks good to go, there are another dozen emails with great feedback and bug reports! It's a good problem to have and we're so grateful for everyone sending in their feedback.

Buy Canadian from an indigenous owned business! eSupply Canada is a great alternative to Staples or Amazon

A lot of exciting updates coming out in the new build (hopefully out later today): - Completely new maps. We are now only using TomTom to supply traffic data! - New maps means we also have improved bike routing - New voices for navigation that sound like humans - Icons on the screen can be tapped

Proud of every Canadian fighting to keep Canada Canadian! 🇨🇦 ✊🏻 #CanadaStrong arlenedickinson.substack.com/p/leaning-on...

Leaning on each other.

I count on Canadians.

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Another dev update: We've made a ton of progress today towards bringing almost the entirety of our back end mapping in-house. What this means is that our core version of Maple Maps will truly hold all its mapping data on servers run in Canada.

Development Update: There are some things that, as a tiny company, we just can't do without using the back end of a larger company. In our case, that is traffic and satellite imagery which require a lot of resources and a large user base to provide useful data.

Hey everyone, For some reason our back end map provider didn’t auto refill our balance when it hit our threshold so some people are reporting getting an error. Things should be back up and running shortly if it isn’t already.