I liked using it but 15€/year for navigation is too much for me. I’m going to stick to osmand now. At least osmand is open source. It has roughly the same features. It’s just not that beautiful. I paid for osmand btw. What’s your alternative?
Edit: And I like paying for osmand because it is open source.
Organic maps is shit.
Use CoMaps instead.
+1 for CoMaps
Why? Is nefarious activity really occuring? It looks like from the linked article, small dev teams are more efficient. There is a scalability issue, governance, inclusion versus efficiency. I can understand in theory why they forked (and I’m switching to comaps), but has organic maps actually done anything bad? Can someone clarify? Is this nonsense what happened with maps.me?
OrganicMaps refused to rule out selling to venture capitalists in the future. They expect volunteers to contribute while keeping the option of capitalizing on free work later.
That’s why it has been forked to what is called CoMaps. So CoMaps is the true, reliable FOSS project now.
Can you point to this reference or source? Where was this stipulated? How?
Sure, here are a number of sources:
ITSFOSS: Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns
Wikibooks: MAPS.ME to Organic Maps/OM Crisis
Openletter: Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders