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There was some controversy about Organicmaps and Comaps ended up as fork afterwards.
So better to use Comaps.
Oh, I had no idea. Thanks. I’ll look into it. I use OM.
Edit: I’ve switched to the new app. Thanks again!
can you give a tldr of the contorversy, i havent heard of it until now
The shareholders basically tried to enshittify it
https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
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