Accommodation & Maps

Maps, navigation apps and places to stay, from offline maps built on OpenStreetMap to free hospitality exchanges where locals host travellers. If you’re after a private Google Maps alternative, we look for open map data, open-source code and owners who make no money from your location.

Our top picks: CoMaps, offline maps and navigation that say they collect no data, from a not-for-profit community that forked Organic Maps in 2025; the trade-off is that it’s young, with about £23,900 a year in donations. And BeWelcome, a free, open-source hospitality exchange with 230,000 members, run by a French non-profit.

How we choose: we check every map and service against the 6 principles in our manifesto (who owns it and how it makes money, what it collects, how it treats people, honesty, openness and staying power). Last checked on 13 October 2026.