I haven't followed the OM project closely, but thanks to the accidental discovery of the unofficial account I found out that the project is not adhering to the core principles of

7 months ago by Spring to c/organicmaps

I haven't followed the OM project closely, but thanks to the accidental discovery of the unofficial @organicmaps account I found out that the project is not adhering to the core principles of open-source software. All the relevant links and a description of the situation: https://openletter.earth/...

unexposedhazard 20 points 7 months ago

You are a bit late to the party, but good reminder in case people missed it. Because of this a fork was created a few months back that is now the new cool kid on the block. There is even a well maintained community on here for it. The new fork is called CoMaps:

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RobotToaster 2 points 7 months ago

The letter seems a bit meandering, it buries the important part half way down, and doesn't specify what those closed parts actually are.

a couple of months later in the team's internal chat he again argued against opening the de-facto closed parts of the maps generator code. It's still not completely open source.

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