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Yacobytoday at 2:32 PM4 repliesview on HN

There is also CoMaps (https://www.comaps.app/) which is a fork of Organic Maps, after concern over the governance of Organic Maps https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/


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random3today at 4:54 PM

Thank you! This is highly relavant. I wish OPs would put a bit more research into what they post

https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

> Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community.

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Doohickey-dtoday at 6:49 PM

And Organic Maps is itself a fork of Maps.me, started ...due to concern over the governance of Maps.me (introduction of commercial elements I think?).

This app has had quite a history.

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hirako2000today at 3:46 PM

what are the concerns over governance of organics maps ?

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b112today at 3:38 PM

So sad. I imagine 99.9% of organic maps users will never know.

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