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

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

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Post by AnyTimeTraveler »

mosselman wrote: post #117
lucideer wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Could you expand on this please? What costs apart from the $100 or so dev license?

As far as I know, you actually need a Mac or other Apple computer to push something to the Appstore and even then it's not a fun process.

This knowledge is second hand from a friend of mine, whom I had the pleasure of listening to when he was ranting about the process a few years ago.

Maybe things have changed since then..?

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

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Post by mgraupner »

tmoravec wrote: post #24
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…

For hiking, check out https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka . While it focuses on central Europe, it regularly imports OSM data worldwide and I found the coverage pretty good.

As a non-Czech but close to the border living German I can also recommend this app, my current favourite on iOS.

Ahoj!

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

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

tmoravec wrote: post #24
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…

For hiking, check out https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka . While it focuses on central Europe, it regularly imports OSM data worldwide and I found the coverage pretty good.

The international version of this is Windy Maps - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind.... I highly recommend it - excellent for outdoors / hiking, tracking route etc. Also has a very polished UI.

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

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Post by frankfrankfrank »

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…

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

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Post by lazyjones »

pxtail wrote: post #28
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…

OsmAnd fits description perfectly, you can place bookmarks, no account required, maps from OSM, offline maps which can be used even without internet connection.

I use Guru Maps for that. It's neat & fast...

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

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Post by moritzwolf »

AnyTimeTraveler wrote: post #121
mosselman wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you expand on this please? What costs apart from the $100 or so dev license?

As far as I know, you actually need a Mac or other Apple computer to push something to the Appstore and even then it's not a fun process. This knowledge is second hand from a friend of mine, whom I had the pleasure of listening to when he was ranting about the process a few years ago. Maybe things have changed since then..?

I did not experience any inconvenience with putting apps into the iOS AppStore. Rather, I found the process quite easy and my apps got approved faster than expected (within one day).

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

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Post by lucideer »

mosselman wrote: post #117
lucideer wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Could you expand on this please? What costs apart from the $100 or so dev license?

$100 is not insignificant.

On top of that there's the cost of Apple hardware; you can get away with not having an iPhone and using xcode's emulation for many cases but with custom graphics heavy things like omim had, this approach would be limiting. And you still need a Mac either way.

And all this is to create an app that's competing directly with an almost identical app on the same store with only marginal benefits (the Android one in contrast has the benefit of being available outside the Google ecosystem, as well as having some exclusivity within F-Droid itself).

It would be a not insurmountable but still significant extra amount of maintenance effort. Given the maintenance effort was already seemingly unmanageable supporting Android alone it's understandable.

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

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Post by piaste »

Invictus0 wrote: post #113
smichel17 wrote: post #107

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Sorry for meta, but what's the hn markdown for strikethrough?

Looks like the parent ran his comment through a strikethrough character generator; I don't believe HN supports it natively.

You are correct.

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

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Post by smcleod »

Very sad to see it go, it was great of road trips and walks out in the country where LTE was patchy and would drain your battery.

I really wish there were more OpenStreetMaps based iOS apps as competition against Google maps.

Apple maps is mostly pretty decent in Australia these days (I actually find it better than Google Maps in Melbourne now) but would love to see more competition - especially open source or at least community driven mapping clients.

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

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Post by piaste »

rabbut wrote: post #110
piaste wrote: post #81

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You originally posted as lucideer then instead of editing that you posted as piaste. It looks like there are more of us than there are, possibly.

No, we're different users. Out of curiosity, why did you think otherwise?
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