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Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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This is great that they’re forking but do that have to continue the OSS tradition of terrible app names?
The name was voted by the community. There were a lot of very good names that unfortunately were already being used by other projects. I'm not a fan of the final choice either.
When you hold a vote you get suggestions like Mappy mcmapface. Actually, that could work....
And, It’s not even unique.
On the iOS App Store, for example, there is:
Yes, it was pointed out that CoMaps was also the name of a business operating in... maps. So if the project gets traction, they'll likely be sued into a better name.
Yes.
"Come, try our new open-source product... Toefungus maps."
That one is at least memorable.
Magic Earth enters the chat.
CoMaps is a good name, wtf
I like the name too, but I tried searching for it and I got results for compass. Lol
I mean, it's new.
Disable your auto spellchecker!