Just like organicmaps, it’s great for offline hiking trail maps. Search is terrible compared to gmaps though, unfortunately, which is understandable. Good, context-sensitive search is hard, and Google has decades of experience in refining (and ruining) it. But whenever I’m in doubt about mobile data coverage I reach for ~~organicmaps~~ comaps

[–] GarbadgeGoober@feddit.org 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There was some controversy about Organicmaps and Comaps ended up as fork afterwards.

So better to use Comaps.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh, I had no idea. Thanks. I’ll look into it. I use OM.

Edit: I’ve switched to the new app. Thanks again!

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

can you give a tldr of the contorversy, i havent heard of it until now

[–] waldfee@feddit.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

The shareholders basically tried to enshittify it

https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 weeks ago

Basically concerns from contributors about the governance structure of the project and how their drive for profit may impact it. And how this FOSS project with significant community contributions has it's shareholders (yes it has shareholders) considering it their sole property.

There's a little on Wikipedia here.

And an open letter: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c