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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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September 29th marks the anniversary of the open‑source app repository we all love.

Why it matters: F‑Droid’s mission aligns well with CoMaps—both champion Free/Libre Open‑Source Software (FLOSS) and community‑driven innovation.

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/04/twif.html Post from 2010: https://f-droid.org/en//2010/09/29/f-droid-is-here.html

Let’s keep building a freer tech ecosystem together!

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[–] jutty@blendit.bsd.cafe 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

at this crossroads in time it'd be better to boost this lest we celebrate one of F-Droid's last birthdays

[–] cazzmaniandevil@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 months ago

As F-droid recommended I sent a message to the EU under the DMA office to complain about Google's decision. Link here https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Fixed link

Also, fuck Google. The shouldn't be allowed to have the power to kill projects like that.

No one entity should. Corporations are the enemy.

[–] CoMaps@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

"If [Google's unilateral policy] were to be put into effect, developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project... as we know it today."

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

I searched for CoMaps on F-Droid and didn't find it.