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CoMaps

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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CubeOfCheese@sopuli.xyz to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz
 

Edit: official voting now happening here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/34

Please comment with your name ideas.

One name per comment.

Top level comments should just be the name. You can put reasons and discuss each idea in the comments below each suggestion.

And vote on what you like!

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[–] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keep CoMaps.

I like this name: it's cute, short and memorable. I also like that 'co-' can have multiple meanings (cooperation, coexisting, community, carbon monoxyde).

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A quick search for comaps shows a couple different projects already using that name. comaps.de is some kind of map visualization. Using the comaps name could lead to some confusion.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I like folk maps, really gives the correct community/citizen cartography vibe

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

+1 Folk Maps

[–] CubeOfCheese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you split it up so that it's one name per comment please? To make voting easier

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure thing! I have the split the options into multiple comments.

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[–] Pleat1752@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Pleat1752@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A play on organic meaning carbon-based (as in organic chemistry). Also I feel like it should be easy(ish) for speakers of other languages to pronounce. I may be wrong though!

[–] zyphlar@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delta Maps (like the fork in the river)

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[–] CubeOfCheese@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lief Maps

  • after explorer Lief Erickson
[–] zyphlar@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternate spelling of Leaf Maps as well (since most people will mis-hear and type the English word rather than the name) and maybe a leafy Lief is the mascot ;)

[–] CubeOfCheese@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait I think I like this better

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

It's neat, but would cause confusion with https://leafmap.org/

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cartogrity (Cartography + Community)

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked your suggestion quite a lot and came up with alternative based on it (the two words staying the same):

CartoUnity

[–] davemenninger@social.coop 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] normplum@fosstodon.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] normplum@fosstodon.org 4 points 1 year ago

@CubeOfCheese

"There is freedom within, there is freedom without"
"Don’t dream it’s over"

Seems appropriate for an Organic Maps fork 😄

[–] zyphlar@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CoCoMaps (community + collaboration)

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's MapLibre - a fork of Mapbox before it went full commercial

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also http://libremap.org/ and https://github.com/libremap/ (different projects as far as I can tell, one of them dormant).

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[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately there seems to be a number of existing software with this name.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Origami Maps

[–] normplum@fosstodon.org 4 points 1 year ago
[–] zyphlar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately there seems to be existing software / websites with this name.

[–] metehan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think we can choose the name of a famous cartographer whose name is easy to pronounce in any language.

And then,

[Cartographer Name] + ["Maps" in your language]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cartographers

[–] metehan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Under the 15th century heading, "Piri", the cartographer who prepared the top map among the sample maps shown there, would be a good name.

Or maybe, "Orbis" and "Battista" under the 16th century heading.

So Piri Maps, Orbis Maps, Battista Maps, etc.

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[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe Green Map with an even greater focus on the durability of the app?

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Based on @LilDumpy@lemmy.world 's great suggestion, I thought of the slogan "Grass-fed, free-range, organic, and community-powered maps". And of course a cow for a mascot.

[–] zyphlar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Common Maps

[–] ooprizrakoo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I'll duplicate it here

Pastk said: cOSMaps (co-OSM-maps) COSMOS Maps (Co-OSM-OpenSource)

And some ideas with the help of AI: COLABMAP (Collaborative Open Libre Access Based Mapping Application Platform) **COMMAP **Community Oriented Modern Mapping Access Project

to be honest, no word makes me completely satisfied.

[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In keeping with the "organic" theme, my submission is:

Free Range Maps

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