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[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago
[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Forbo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Oof. That sucks.

Time to fork the meme.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago
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[-] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

U'd love to use Osmand on a daily basis but the map renders so slow for me that it becomes hard to use. Zooming out to then wait 10+ seconds is annoying. I still use it frequently but for everyday tasks I swotched to Omaps/COmaps.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Which rendering engine do you use?

[-] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Version 2 but I tried both.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Shame, that could've been an easy fix. I remember back in the day on V1 performance was really abysmal.

[-] Mucki@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Offtopic: Is it possible to "avoid road" upon tapping a location? OsmAnd offers this feature, in case you are confronted with a road block or construction site. CoMaps does not it seems. I can not correct routing live without this function.

[-] qweertz@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Organic Maps and thus by extension CoMaps are supposed to be minimalist and light on features. They are kinda the polar opposite to OSMAnd (at least regarding that)

[-] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.space 51 points 2 days ago

These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago

Anytime shareholders are involved you know it's going to be shit.

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 203 points 2 days ago

You might know of Organic Maps, the open source app that's an alternative to Google Maps. Recently, concerns have been raised about its governance, with many contributors questioning the project's transparency and direction.

Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community.

These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.

As a result, many contributors teamed up and forked the project, establishing CoMaps, a new alternative focused on openness and being not-for-profit.

[-] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 85 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips

I do have the same overall concerns though and for me enough reason to switch the moment its possible also. But I tend to see the 'the holiday trips' as a symtpom instead of a problem. Later on they explained that some developers received 3 months salary worth of pay over the course of 4 years. Putting a lot more time in it during those four years. If I contributed that much for free I also would spend it on a holiday. But the problem is like you said transparancy:

  • No openness of financial transactions which I guess showing salary wouldnt be a problem and if everybody was able to see the salary was reasonable. (and I dont care what people do with it in their private live).
  • Maybe they didnt organise it that way (paying oneself for labour and tell everyone) but maybe they used it directly for holidays etc, which is a problem for the business entity they have I guess. Like my boss paying my holiday instead of my salary.
  • Reluctant to answer questions in reasonable timeframes (couple of months)
[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 days ago

Switching is possible now, if you want. CoMaps builds have been released for a while, and are in f-droid I think since today? I have no idea about Google play store.

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[-] defuse959@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago

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

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

community-driven project […] shareholders

How does that work?

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Socialize the cost, privatize the profits.

[-] poinck@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I could not find any word of an iOS version of CoMap. Does someone know?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Organic Maps was on iOS, my guess is that it'll take time to get a new app approved on the iOS store

[-] poinck@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

Then users can pick between MAPS.me, Organic Maps and CoMaps. Crazy!!

[-] dRLY@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Good to see devs willing to do the work needed in order to draw hard lines on the capitalist leeches that divert money away from the project. I am looking forward to the traffic system that they mentioned as a future option. Would allow users that are okay with turning on those features for adding crowdsourced traffic data and stuff like marking cops posting up to get their quotas.

Literally the only thing that keeps me on Waze is that stuff. I have to deal with a lot of interstate travel to and from work and knowing that a big crash happened so I can re-route before getting stuck is crucial. I will still make sure to have this installed just like I had Organic Maps as a good option. And to see what stuff I go to that needs to be updated on OSM and StreetComplete. Had to add all of the addresses on my street on OSM a while ago just to be able to correctly enter my address. One of those addresses that is listed as one town for mailing and is technically within the borders of a smaller one with regards to utilities and plots of land.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

The problem is if nobody uses it, there won't be any data.

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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hope they will make the destination search much better, it's almost unusable now, and unintuitive. Regarding traffic data, how much could it be per user per year, something like this https://www.mapbox.com/traffic-data ?

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