gedaliyahCoMaps: Release 2026.01.24 is out
TheTechnician27As a contributor to OSM, I didn’t know about what was going on with Organic Maps. I might check out CoMaps on F-Droid to see how it compares with OsmAnd~. Thanks, OP!
HarryAdmittedly I only read this open letter and so am still too out-of-the-loop to say if Organic Maps is in the wrong here. Still, it seems like a sizable and competent enough fork that my initial bias is against Organic Maps.
sigh
Sake. Can every bloody FOSS project stop falling out with itself and fighting with each other?
DamageThis was the second time, so it wasn’t really unexpected. Maps.me was foss, then they sold it, and the original devs forked it after the sale, that’s how Organic Maps came to life. They started to sell out AGAIN, but now different devs forked it before it could have been sold. Current version of Organic Maps already contains some ads.
The current version of organic maps has ads?! Can you corroborate this with evidence?
Also how the hell was maps.me captures, then organic maps also?! Who are the VC leeches sucking our community dry. They need to be called out.
github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/6523
They are called out in the open letter: openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shar…
[android][ios] Add "Details on KAYAK" button to hotels by rtsisyk · Pull Request #6523 · organicmaps/organicmaps
Add an experimental referral link "Details on KAYAK" to hotels on the map. KAYAK is a metasearch engine that aggregates hundreds of travel sites at once to find the best deals on the hote...