Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

telegra.ph

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 248 posts

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#91

Post by lucideer »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #74
lucideer wrote: post #47

The complete lack of any mention in the article of the long-running F-Droid fork effort is a bit disturbing if I'm honest. If the author had already reached out to @axet to offer to help / become a maintainer I'd imagine it would've been mentioned up top. I'm all for people creating multiple divergent open-source forks of things (diversity is great) but this doesn't seem to be divergent at all. The stated intent is t…

Does the F-Droid fork have an app store version? Author did say they used an iPhone.

Given the cost & overhead of distributing via Apple, I can't imagine there'd be much incentive for this.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#92

Post by qrian »

The article claims that they are sold to a south korean company “Daegu ltd.”, but I was not able to find any information on this company online. One site even claims that it is an American company[1]. Although I agree that it sounds very much Korean for it is a name of a big city here, it would be nice to see it clarified if needed because there’s already a comment with how greedy korean companies are.

[1]: https://mergr.com/daegu-acquisitions

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#93

Post by lucideer »

vetinari wrote: post #68
lucideer wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self-hosting has improved but is still non-trivial. MapTiler and Mapbox are expensive.

You can use openmaptiles to create the vector tiles (it is made by the Maptiler guys) and serve the tiles with tileserver-gl (or tileserver-gl-light, if you don't need raster tiles).

Yes.

The maintenance of which is non-trivial.

The fork has maintained their own tiles, so I don't think there's any question of not knowing how to. It's just been inconsistently maintained over time.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#94

Post by Youden »

piaste wrote: post #81
lucideer wrote: post #47

The complete lack of any mention in the article of the long-running F-Droid fork effort is a bit disturbing if I'm honest. If the author had already reached out to @axet to offer to help / become a maintainer I'd imagine it would've been mentioned up top. I'm all for people creating multiple divergent open-source forks of things (diversity is great) but this doesn't seem to be divergent at all. The stated intent is t…

I̶t̶ ̶l̶o̶o̶k̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶F̶-̶D̶r̶o̶i̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶u̶p̶d̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶g̶o̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶'̶w̶e̶b̶s̶i̶t̶e̶'̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶p̶o̶i̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶p̶s̶.̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶r̶a̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶c̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶o̶s̶i̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶k̶. ̶G̶i̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶u̶t̶h…

Maybe you're looking at the wrong place?

> It looks like the F-Droid fork was last updated five years ago

The latest release is August 2020 [0] and the latest update to the repo happened at the same time [1].

> and the 'website' link just points to maps.me, rather than a public repository or anything specific to the fork.

There's a "Source Code" link [0] which points to the Gitlab repo [1]. I don't even see a "website" link.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/

[1]: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/tree/HEAD

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#95

Post by jacekm »

wraptile wrote: post #65
rob74 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I would have pointed out OsmAnd too, but you were faster :) I'm not a subscriber yet as the features of the free version are enough for me, but someday my conscience will probably guilt me into supporting them anyway...

FYI They currently have a sub deal for like 8$/year!

The full version is also available on F-Droid for free.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#96

Post by lucideer »

piaste wrote: post #81
lucideer wrote: post #47

The complete lack of any mention in the article of the long-running F-Droid fork effort is a bit disturbing if I'm honest. If the author had already reached out to @axet to offer to help / become a maintainer I'd imagine it would've been mentioned up top. I'm all for people creating multiple divergent open-source forks of things (diversity is great) but this doesn't seem to be divergent at all. The stated intent is t…

I̶t̶ ̶l̶o̶o̶k̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶F̶-̶D̶r̶o̶i̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶u̶p̶d̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶g̶o̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶'̶w̶e̶b̶s̶i̶t̶e̶'̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶p̶o̶i̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶p̶s̶.̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶r̶a̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶c̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶o̶s̶i̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶k̶. ̶G̶i̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶u̶t̶h…

Not sure what you're looking at, the last commit to the fork is August 2020.

The author of that fork has also been actively engaged with the maps.me devs throughout its development, you can see a lot of these discussions in the issues on the original github mapsme omim project.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#97

Post by piaste »

Youden wrote: post #94
piaste wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I̶t̶ ̶l̶o̶o̶k̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶F̶-̶D̶r̶o̶i̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶u̶p̶d̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶g̶o̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶'̶w̶e̶b̶s̶i̶t̶e̶'̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶p̶o̶i̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶p̶s̶.̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶r̶a̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶c̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶o̶s̶i̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶k̶. ̶G̶i̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶u̶t̶h…

Maybe you're looking at the wrong place? > It looks like the F-Droid fork was last updated five years ago The latest release is August 2020 [0] and the latest update to the repo happened at the same time [1]. > and the 'website' link just points to maps.me, rather than a public repository or anything specific to the fork. There's a "Source Code" link [0] which points to the Gitlab repo [1]. I don't even see a "websit…

> Maybe you're looking at the wrong place?

I was, thanks! There's a "Maps.me" app on F-Droid that's the one I described (presumably the same APK as the Play Store?). Whereas the fork you guys are talking about is just "Maps". Editing my comment.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#98

Post by Aeolun »

lucideer wrote: post #41
dest wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This fork is in a poor state, barely working, needs some love

The fork is in a good state codebase-wise but they've had ongoing issues hosting map tiles (hosting a tileserver is an arduous task for a free/voluntary effort). The fork is/was very popular so I can envisage this new effort having similar issues if it starts to get traffic.

I kind of feel it’s supposed to be set and forget right? I spent a few days setting it all up but it was pretty seamless after.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#99

Post by vetinari »

lucideer wrote: post #93
vetinari wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use openmaptiles to create the vector tiles (it is made by the Maptiler guys) and serve the tiles with tileserver-gl (or tileserver-gl-light, if you don't need raster tiles).

Yes. The maintenance of which is non-trivial. The fork has maintained their own tiles, so I don't think there's any question of not knowing how to. It's just been inconsistently maintained over time.

With openmaptiles, they had a hiccup when Mapbox sent C&D, because they used the same mvt scheme as Mapbox (thus they were able to use the same themes). Once they switched to their own scheme, I didn't notice any problems with maintenance.

With tileserver, it is more interesting. The full one (capable of generating raster tiles on demand) still needs ancient node.js (v10, soon to be eol), which can be a problem. The light one runs OK on the current stack.

Re: Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back

#100

Post by ascii_only »

amelius wrote: post #59
fab1an wrote: post #5

Too bad, maps.me was by far the best maps application for non city use, and ideal for hiking. Commendable initiative to bring it back in its original version! A few examples of why it was so great: Simple, non social bookmarks. As in: place a bookmark so you don't get lost while hiking, or when you find a nice spot you want to come back to later. Yep, a utility feature that doesn't somehow map to some stoopid busines…

Or use a real map, and don't risk running out of batteries.

Paper maps are pretty heavy downgrade in a lot of places compared to something that have satellite + osm + topographic map. They are often outdated or not nearly as detailed.
Post reply on HN