The functional advantage is not supporting shady practices. We ditch Google Maps to avoid Google, so why go to another shady organization

Oversimplified, it's like a federated Discord

Where's XMPP ?

Organic maps has become shady just during the time when the Russia has started using different ways of forcing Russians abroad into spying for the Russia. Organic Maps is not maintained by Russians, but it is being maintained by Belarusians, and the Russia has been pressing the same things in Belarus as well.

It is a bit scary that a program that knows your location by GPS is doing shady things, if it's maintained by people who are reasonably likely to deliver some data to Lukashenka and Putin. The timing of them turning shady is very suspicious. It might be there's nothing really bad about OrganicMaps, but I cannot know. I know people who the Russia might be interested in pressuring, so my location could also be of interest for them. Since there's nothing where Comaps is worse than Organic Maps, I preferred to make the switch. That way, I don't need to consider the possibility that my maps program might be leaking my data to the most sinister people on this planet.

If you get a threat that your family might end up in a very uncomfortable prison for the rest of their lives, in a country where torture is commonplace in prisons, you might very well agree to throw unknown foreign people under the bus. One's own children and parents can easily be more important for someone than I am. And people can do a LOT to protect their loved ones.

I just downloaded it to try it out. I'm missing the options Google Maps gives for routes though. The map app doesn't always know best, so it's better to give a few options imo.

open standards

bluesky

I do wish more things I used would move to matrix or IRC. Perhaps I just need to refuse to use discord

And then there are complete opposites who only communicate via Discord and Github

Thanks! Turned out the F-droid version was less updated.

(Organic Maps was promising, but has made shady and unilateral decisions without community input or even notification).

Could you elaborate on this?

I mean, whether or not they're decentralised, they are on an open standard.

For public transport i prefer to use HERE, which is owned by a bunch of car companies i believe. Might also be good for navigation by car i wouldn't know. But although i havent found a big difference between Comaps and Organic Maps i'm inclined to continue using it.

Hey, they did list Mastodon first.

I've recently gone back to using osmand~. CoMaps doesn't support GPX navigation (can only display the track), which is really important for preplanned cycle tours. And I don't drive enough with a car to gauge the navigation there.

Still a great project, it just doesn't fit my personal needs at all.

Strange, absolutely can't get F-Droid to show CoMaps, even with direct links

Search results in F-Droid

Does F-Droid restrict access to apps based on geolocation? In Scandinavia

Link (F-Droid button) from official site

Works fine for me using droidify

Other open source projects or so called “freedom advocates”, take note!

No Satellite view. ️

I know I'll probably get a serve for this, bit I use HERE WeGo maps. I know it's proprietary, I know it still tracks data. But it's not Google, and I always use offline maps and navigation. I just can't get behind the ugly UI of OSM, Organic/CoMaps etc.

I'm on GrapheneOS so I can setup scopes for network access if it needs permissions — it works without network permission, I just enable it to update maps periodically. It also works with android auto.

Of course, if you're comfortable with OSM or CoMaps UI then that's the better choice. I'm just sharing my experience.