CoMaps now available on F-Droid
CoMaps now available on F-Droid
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CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive Offline with Privacy | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31599461
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Perfect, thanks for the heads up.
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Hopped aboard, gave it a little poke around as a first time user. Definitely much more friendly user experience compared to OSMand! I was able to pin my home location and set 'avoid highways' very intuitively.
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It's a really nice app for openstreetmap data, beautiful even. I also find the UI really nice and uncluttered and intuitive to use. Best of all: allows you to contribute to openstreetmap directly inside the app!
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do :)
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For someone, who never heard of CoMaps why is it a big deal?
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I guess it's not a big deal to someone who wasn't using / aware of OrganicMaps, but it is huge to us who loved OM.
The community is incredibly disappointed of the owners of the project (shareholders, original developers) when the volunteer force of the open-source map application wrote a revealing openletter to the owners.
The owners had been misusing the donations / funding of the project - as well as possibly (honestly, most likely) planning to sell out after years of people giving the project their free time (there is much more to this, but I'll keep it short. See the openletter for more info)
CoMaps is a community fork of OrganicMaps, so it is incredibly exciting that the FOSS volunteers have been able to fork the project, set up and organize everything, and are going forward at this speed!
It truly shows the power of FOSS and how companies can't just take something away from all the people who contributed for free and out of passion.
Hope that answers your question! :)
Edit: added more context.
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Didn't come up in a search of the fdroid app
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I use Droidify and its there
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Massive news!
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