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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.

https://www.comaps.app/

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We’re thrilled to announce that comaps.app is now live! Explore the latest updates about the app, features, and more on the brand-new website.

Check out comaps.app and discover how you can transform the way you navigate, explore, and share your favorite places. Whether you're a traveler, a local explorer, or just someone who loves maps, CoMaps helps you discover more of your journey!

Latest News: Stay up-to-date with the latest updates and development progress.

Community Features: Connect with people in the community on your favorite platform, and see what others are contributing.

What Makes CoMaps Different: See the ideas behind CoMaps Enjoy a sleek and intuitive design that makes it easy to find what you need.

What’s Next? Your feedback is invaluable, so please let us know what you think and what you’d like to see next. Join us on this journey and help us make comaps.app even better. Share your thoughts, experiences, and suggestions in the comments below!

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[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

For some background, it turns out organic maps had a for profit llc registered and long poised itself as free and open source. When the llc was discovered the community volunteers wrote an open letter

When their concerns were not answered they forked the project and created CoMaps which in theory is supposed to be everything organic maps ever portrayed itself as.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

clickable link, for the lazy https://www.comaps.app/

[–] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

I didn't understand what could be the difference between comaps.app & organic maps, does anyone understood ? Also I didn't find any git link but maybe I'm dumb x)

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 5 points 9 hours ago

Nothing yet, it just started. But the difference will be that it will be run by a nonprofit rather than a for profit.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully it'll have search that isn't completely unusably bad, like letting you navigate to an address while knowing if you've actually got the right one, instead of blindly guessing one of a dozen streets with the same name.

[–] Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

Also searching for postal codes does not work on Organic Maps, which is a big frustration for me.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 12 hours ago

Community run vs private ownership

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

You have to click on the how to contribute thing and then the bug submission subtitle and then it will bring you to a readme in codeberg where you can go back to the root where you will find the actual project. Idk why they made it so complicated... Link

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What's the business model?

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago

Volunteer work

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Is this open source?

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 hours ago

As i said in another comment, its just extremely hard to find the link to the repo

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I believe it's just a hard fork of organic maps since people have had issues with its leadership, so yes

(I think I'm using "hard fork" correctly there...)

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ty

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

You're very welcome! Hope you have a lovely day :)

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't the website out for a few days now?

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 8 points 17 hours ago
  1. That's not very long
  2. It hasn't been posted in this community yet