CoMaps

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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

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Why choose CoMaps over another project? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz

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I recently saw this community pop up on All and checked it out a bit, but was wondering why CoMaps?

I’ve seen other Open Street Map projects such as Organic Maps and OsmAnd. What sets this project apart from others?

Hoping someone here knows more about this or can point me in the right direction.

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

from https://programming.dev/comment/16991937

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.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Oh wow. I can see how that would piss a lot of people off with that kind of deception.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

I was Organic when this happened. Reading what the volunteers wrote moved me to CoMaps.

As someone who formed a non-profit in the US, it's a shitty corporate organization. There has to be a board but that board can just dump the founders and do what they want.

With a for-profit LLC, you can be the only member or make the founders all members and not worry about a board.

It varies state by state, but it was not a good experience for me trying to form a nonprofit.