CoMaps

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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

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CoMaps @ #DIDay (europe.pub)

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Since the #39c3 in December, every first Sunday of the month has been a "Digital Independence Day" for trying out alternatives to dominant/big tech platforms.

If you're looking to explore alternatives to Google or Apple Maps, why not give CoMaps – or any of the other open source map-applications that are based on data from #OpenStreetMap – a try!

You can learn more about the #DIDay here: https://edri.org/our-work/didit-edri-members-spark-movement-for-alternatives-to-big-tech/

#DIDit

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

In a perfect world, you'd have both.

First, instant streaming as you browse the map while internet connected, so you don't deal with delays, don't have to wait for the map to download before you can do anything with it. And while doing that, also download offline maps in the background, without interrupting the user.

But, yeah, I can definitely see why a open source project with limited resources wouldn't be able to make streaming available.