Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born
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Honestly, that just seems normal to me. If you’re looking for an adress in a foreign language, it seems obvious that you’d have to type it in that language. I don’t really understand why people would expect their map to do it for them.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Because it's an option already. "Transliterate to Latin letters."
Edit: I should add that you should look at how many keyboard layouts there are. It's kind of silly that for me to use an OSM based map and go to any county east of Slovenia I need to both have the keyboard AND know the transliteration of the alphabet.
Have you seen the Armenian or Georgian alphabets? What makes the K sound?
Did you know every dialect of a Slavic language using Cyrillic has it's own distinct keyboard varied by mostly the letter for the nya sound and J?
Greek?
All while transliteration works fine in Google.
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Quick heads up for anyone running verbose NextDNS configs, you'll need to add an exception for this entry currently to start the initial download
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These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.
Anytime shareholders are involved you know it's going to be shit.
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Will there be an alternative to StreetComplete?
An Apps that lets you contribute to CoMaps instead of Organic Maps?edit n/m. I found out that StreetComplete contributes to OpenStreetMaps.
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community-driven project […] shareholders
How does that work?
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I bet it wouldn't be much.
I could switch to this app if it had live traffic data.
Isn't there any shared traffic data to get some info from for free at least to begin with? -
The actual app Magic Earth is proprietary, but it uses OpenStreetMap
wrote last edited by [email protected]Fucking RIP, someone on Lemmy recommended it to me and I thought it was open source. Should've known that Organic Maps would've also did traffic data if it was truly open source...
For now, I'll still use it cause it's better than being tracked by Waze/Google, but damn... Hope these new maps are good.
Edit: Downloaded Comaps from Fdroid yesterday but it wouldn't download the maps, and I can't get into the app. Gave all permissions, wifi was on (but also tried on data), and turned on compatibility mode on Graphene. Downloaded today from the Codeberg repo and it still has an error downloading the maps. Anyone else experiencing this?
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What was the benefit of Organic Maps over OsmAnd or other options? I never understood why Organic Maps was getting so much traction.
Organic maps (and now comaps) have a much better rendering engine. It's much faster, while also being much more legible. It's routing engine is also faster.
OsmAnd does have the upper hand when it wcomes to features though. I have both and use OsmaAnd when I need to export a route to GPX or see relief.
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I could switch to this app if it had live traffic data.
Isn't there any shared traffic data to get some info from for free at least to begin with?Magic Earth has live traffic data.
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Destination search in all the OSM based maps is a challenge. The Latin letter transliteration only applies to large features. So if I want to find an address in a country try that doesn't use Latin script, I literally need a keyboard in that language or do a lot of cut and paste from Google Translate. My address never, ever works on OSM. Gets the wrong street, can't even handle house/building numbers. Works fine on Google.
Magic Earth handles it decently.
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Magic Earth handles it decently.
Holy shit. Yes, it does. Thanks! Hadn't heard of it until today
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community-driven project […] shareholders
How does that work?
Socialize the cost, privatize the profits.
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Magic Earth has live traffic data.
Not FOSS though
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I could switch to this app if it had live traffic data.
Isn't there any shared traffic data to get some info from for free at least to begin with?There's no FOSS app that does this unfortunately.
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Holy shit. Yes, it does. Thanks! Hadn't heard of it until today
Not FOSS though. But privacy first
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Not FOSS though
True. The real time traffic data is their business model. They sell it to professional customers for routing.
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Should have named it libre map.
A little variety shouldn't hurt. There are plenty of Libre X or Yet Another X projects already.
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Thanks for asking i've been wondering myself actually. I looked it up and organic maps doesn't actually do traffic, although magic earth does (another not foss but apparenty privacy respecting map app that uses osm) It says it's just crowdsourced from the general public who uses magic earth (in an anonimous way, I guess there are enough magic earth uses for it to work since Some people say it works really well. (although others say it doesn't you should probably try it for yourself.)
On another note that I also found from my research just then, traffic knowing apps don't actually improve travel times but they do make previously congested places more congested.
sources:Edit: Magic earth is not foss so there is no way to varify that the app is actually respecting your privacy like it says it is, i'm sorry for any confusion.
Magic Earth is proprietary, not FOSS.
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This meme format makes me sad ever since I learned that the blonde woman was outed as being severely physically abused by her husband here.
