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About evaluation - you are right, they don’t say they are contributors in their comments explicitly (which they probably should do), but it was quite telling in one case, when a pe…

I've read both Organic Maps thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446 (as it's my favorite map app I use for years around the world, and I'm an active OSM contributor as…

Another nitpick: at least OM is made by people who made MapsMe. CoMaps is not - developed by a community, whatever it means.

> Organic Maps is a for-profit venture that accepts donations. That's sketchy. I don’t understand why it is “sketchy”. Also do you have any proof on “Kremlin links”?

> OM has lost most of its community a year ago to comaps > rushing to compensate I understand that you, being a contributor to CoMaps which people can see on your page, want to pro…

As a active OSM contibutor with 7k+ changesets, Organic is my favorite map app I use for years traveling around the world, also donated to them. Only use GMaps for finding business…

comment doesn't seem very objective, OM receives monthly updates the same way it did for years, also getting new features each time. so define what you mean here by repeating "dyin…

Man this "Russia is running out of XXX" tale is becoming quite old and not being taken seriously nowadays - year by year goes with the same narrative and it's only getting objectiv…

Why you need to imagine things? deepstate map shows really well which army is "collapsing" now

So.. if I want to help and seed the torrents, do I have to download the whole 80-120 TB for this? can I somehow help when I don't have a space for hundred TB on my machine? went to…

On their website if you click "Get the app" while sitting on Android - you are redirected to AppStore...

nice comment, thanks for the very interesting perspective!

"90% of Meduza's sources' predictions didn't come true". Source: https://www.proekt.media/guide/kremlin-telegram-meduza (it's in Russian, info is at the end of the article).

Well, yes and no, even people who are strongly anti-Russian-regime-oriented told me that they stopped reading Meduza because it's giving info which is extremely one sided and not o…

I still remember my Lumia 820 with warm feelings, Windows Phone was such a nice OS...

on the same topic - sometimes it's so frustrating when I put some shop name in Google Maps while I'm in Paris and looking on the map of my neighborhood, for example - and whoosh - …

Notion seems to be planning to add some kind of AI-based tool for their app, by the way - https://www.notion.so/product/ai