Organic Maps is the open source fork. (And a good one at that!)
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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Better than OsmAnd?
Better for basic functionality, but if you need advanced functionality, you'll have to stick with OsmAnd.
IMO yes. It hasn't got all the features but if it has enough for you, the user experience feels more polished.
That's a tricky question and I feel like the answer is very personal. Simplifying it too much:
Organic Maps: basic, simple, easy to set up and understand.
OsmAnd: heavy, complicated and with looots of information.
I personally find that Organic Maps works for 90% of my needs: it's easy to use and navigate through. The remaining 10% I need more advanced functions not present in Organic Maps and OsmAnd comes to the rescue.
I personally find OsmAnd better than Google Maps, except for the lack of traffic alerts, public transit navigation and streetview (Mapillary streetview works fine... but it was bought out by Facebook 🤧).
I also use it as my bike computer due to the really handy widgets
Android Auto functionality is also limited - it does not show street names on-screen.
It used to be open source, then it went completely closed. As mentioned, Organic Maps is the fork that is the continuation of the GPL app.
The version you linked on github is FOSS but it is out of date— newer versions on the play store are proprietary. Organic Maps is a continuation of the FOSS version by the original developers.
It is not. It used to be, but it got acquired by a third party company and became closed source and started tracking its users.
The good news is that the original developers of Maps.Me developed an Open Source fork of the original app: Organic Maps which is an excellent app that is actively developed by a team that listens to the users needs and is therefore constantly improving. I recommend everyone to check it out.
it's not only not open source, but it has trackers too. iirc it was phoning Facebook when i decided to search for other apps
One of the GitHub issues says it's closed source now.
in OPs second link it also states that it's closed source but older versions are open source
I’m using Organic Maps. Is that open source? I know that they don’t collect any data.
Yes, Organic Maps is the open source fork that some original developers of Maps.Me made once the original app was purchased by a third party.
yes, it is
Thanks. I’m happy to hear that.
thanks to everyone for the answer!