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nextcloud/maps
🌍🌏🌎 The whole world fits inside your cloud!
Nextcloud Maps is a self-hosted map app that integrates with your Nextcloud instance to show photos, contacts, devices, GPX tracks, and favorites on a map. It is for privacy-conscious users who already run Nextcloud and want location features without giving data to Google. Not a standalone app — useless without a Nextcloud installation.
Full l10n coverage across 60+ languages, which is rare and suggests a healthy contributor base. Multiple routing backends (OSRM, GraphHopper, Mapbox) means you are not locked into a paid service. Photo geotagging via EXIF scanning runs as a background job so it does not block the UI. The recent MapLibre-GL migration drops the aging Leaflet dependency and opens the door to WebGL-accelerated rendering.
590 stars for a Nextcloud official app after years of development is low — signals limited adoption or stagnation. Several features listed in the README (GNOME Maps sync, OwnTracks recording, event map) are still marked 'planned' with no timeline or open PRs visible. Device tracking (find my phone) stores location data server-side with no documented encryption at rest, which is a concern for the exact users who chose self-hosting for privacy. The PHP backend and Vue frontend are a mix of old patterns — migration files going back to 2019 coexist with newer code and there is no documented upgrade path for breaking schema changes.