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[–] Mucki@feddit.org 3 points 2 hours 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.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

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 2 points 40 minutes ago

Which rendering engine do you use?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Nothing is as funny as having to undergo facial reconstruction surgery because your husband punched you hard enough to break your bones.

[–] Forbo@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago

Oof. That sucks.

Time to fork the meme.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

community-driven project […] shareholders

How does that work?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Socialize the cost, privatize the profits.

[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.space 44 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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 24 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] defuse959@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 21 hours 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

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 182 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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 76 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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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[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

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 1 points 27 minutes ago

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

[–] Debs@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago

The traffic system would be amazing. This is what is stopping me from using this.

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[–] Suoko@feddit.it 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

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 ?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Destination search in all the OSM based maps is a challenge. The Latin letter transliteration only applies to large features. So if I want to find an address in a country try that doesn't use Latin script, I literally need a keyboard in that language or do a lot of cut and paste from Google Translate. My address never, ever works on OSM. Gets the wrong street, can't even handle house/building numbers. Works fine on Google.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit. Yes, it does. Thanks! Hadn't heard of it until today

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Not FOSS though. But privacy first

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[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Should have named it libre map.

[–] quant@leminal.space 1 points 10 hours ago

A little variety shouldn't hurt. There are plenty of Libre X or Yet Another X projects already.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

aaaand uninstalled

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