Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There is some serious crapitalist hate for organic maps. I never heard of it util is was taken off the play store for a bit. I side loaded it that day.
It works well, and I’m a huge fan and contributor to Open Street Maps (which it’s bassed on). But it doesn’t do traffic, which is unfortunately wha I need from my navigation apps 99% of the time.
If they had a paid option to cover the costs of using TomTom’s traffic API, I’d make the switch.
But it is one of the best when it comes to cycling or walking. I’ve been using it for years now.
Why would it get removed? Can’t have any competition for Google Maps or what? Well, it won’t get removed on F-droid
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Organic Maps is not at feature parity with paid options but it is pretty damn good for FOSS. I use it almost daily for driving around city/suburban Australia and it very rarely gives me bad directions - certainly no more than the paid option i previously used (Sygic).
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Its also a really great base project to build on top of. The routing system is a plug in library which can be easily replaced. That means if someone wants to build something that collects and utilizes live data for traffic/construction avoidance they can totally do that. Adding new map layers is also a big one that they made sure is going to be easy to do.
eodur@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Has anyone actually created a traffic plugin yet? This is one of the main reasons I use Magic Earth still. I regularly bounce between that, Organic, and OsmAnd. They all have slightly different features.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Nah, because the organic team doesnt wanna deal with collecting user data. Getting live location data from millions of people requires using and feeding into google services and thats a no go.
Location data is just too sensitive and impossible to anonymize properly. No matter what you do, there will always be some company that has to collect all the data. That company no matter how cool and FOSS will eventually be forced to cooperate with law enforcement and then you are back to what we have now.