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For some background, it turns out organic maps had a for profit llc registered and long poised itself as free and open source. When the llc was discovered the community volunteers wrote an open letter
When their concerns were not answered they forked the project and created CoMaps which in theory is supposed to be everything organic maps ever portrayed itself as.
clickable link, for the lazy https://www.comaps.app/
ooop, that’s not meant to happen 😅 have fixed now, thanks: https://codeberg.org/comaps/website/pulls/92
haha nice 😅
I didn’t understand what could be the difference between comaps.app & organic maps, does anyone understood ? Also I didn’t find any git link but maybe I’m dumb x)
It’s supposed to be more transparent and community involved.
Nothing yet, it just started. But the difference will be that it will be run by a nonprofit rather than a for profit.
Hopefully it’ll have search that isn’t completely unusably bad, like letting you navigate to an address while knowing if you’ve actually got the right one, instead of blindly guessing one of a dozen streets with the same name.
Have you checked if the addresses you want to navigate to are on OSM? If not, you can add them.
That’s a separate problem, and I have experienced it. Many of the destinations I navigate to have only an street name, not a full address. But the problem I have is when multiple streets have the same name, Organic Maps (and it is definitely an OM problem, not inherent to OSM’s underlying data) doesn’t display sufficient disambiguating data to know which of those streets you’re looking for.
Here’s Organic Maps, with a search for a road I happen to know is a common road name in my area, without using one of the real similar examples that I’ve encountered (and which could help identify me). See how all of those examples say they’re various kinds of roads in “Brisbane, Australia”? That’s…not helpful. Because I know they’re all in Brisbane. But what I need is to know which suburb they’re in. Because I know I need to go to a particular suburb. The best option I have with OM is to guestimate how many kilometres away the suburb might be. Or to just guess and check if I’ve clicked the right one.
And this is what Google Maps looks like. Far, far more useful.
For completeness, here’s what I get in OpenStreetMap on the web. It’s showing more useful data, with the suburb and postcode shown. But doing some weird things with which results it decides to return for some reason. Probably because it doesn’t properly utilise location data. There are also multiple results of the same road (the top two, one says “City of Brisbane”, the official local government area, and the other “Greater Brisbane”, the statistical area used by ABS for census etc. purposes).
edit: reuploaded screenshots with precise distances covered up, for privacy reasons. Both OM and GM show the approximate distance, in kilometres, to each result.
Also searching for postal codes does not work on Organic Maps, which is a big frustration for me.
Community run vs private ownership
You have to click on the how to contribute thing and then the bug submission subtitle and then it will bring you to a readme in codeberg where you can go back to the root where you will find the actual project. Idk why they made it so complicated… Link
Is this open source?
Yes it’s on codeberg:
As i said in another comment, its just extremely hard to find the link to the repo
I believe it’s just a hard fork of organic maps since people have had issues with its leadership, so yes
(I think I’m using “hard fork” correctly there…)
Ty
You’re very welcome! Hope you have a lovely day :)
What’s the business model?
Volunteer work
Wasn’t the website out for a few days now?
- That’s not very long
- It hasn’t been posted in this community yet
