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[โ€“] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i spent my summer last year filling all the street names on a caribbean island i was going on holiday in december, so i could use Co-Maps offline during my trip (aka Maps.me and Organic Maps before enshitification)

osm is the best!

[โ€“] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait did organic maps enshitify?

[โ€“] Raptorox@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Thw open letter describes it best, but in short: shareholders doing things behind the devs' backs

[โ€“] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see. Deleted organic maps and installed comaps on my phones.

[โ€“] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the replacement is CoMaps

[โ€“] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] rmuk@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

I've been stuck in a loop for three hours. I only escaped because someone slapped the phone out of my hands.

[โ€“] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I'm glad to have seen your comment. It's unfortunate people start these good projects and get taken in by the money. Using community donations to fund a personal holiday is shameful. I won't be using Organic Maps any longer.

[โ€“] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

shareholders doing things behind the devs' backs

That's a story as old as time (or at least as old as the concept of shareholders).

It's more a feud between the founder of Organics Maps and people from the FOSS community, with the apparent inclusion of proprietary code into Organic Maps, and issues regarding to the governance of the project. Here's an article from someone who will be better at explaining all this: https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/ :)