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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 miguelrochefort »

MAPS.ME allowed me and my girlfriend to do a 16-day hike to the Everest Base Camp without a guide.

It had more off-road trails than I had ever seen on Google Maps, along with altitude information, lodge reviews, checkpoints, etc.

I vividly remember turning my phone on a couple of times a day to look at MAPS.ME before immediately turning it off to save battery (you can't easily charge your phone up there). Except for the camera, I basically haven't used any other app for a whole 16 days. I haven't experienced such digital minimalism in adulthood until and since this trip.

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

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Post by matkoniecz »

mvexel wrote: post #189
matkoniecz wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"they didn't make life easy for the maintainer of the libre fork" They were trying to use servers paid by maps.me in version of app that removed all revenue generators. This part was perfectly understandable, removing ads/tracking/etc is fine - but use your own servers then. But lack of a proper attribution was not acceptable (yes, I am the same matkoniecz).

The Windy / Mapy apps recommended elsewhere in this thread don't seem to be doing that great of a job on attribution either. A recent draft[0] of OSM attribution guidelines states "attribution after one interaction" as suitable for a mobile app, but these apps require two, and some scrolling. [0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Draft_Attribution_Guidel...

Mote that this draft was rejected primarily because due to "attribution after one interaction" part.

ODBL ( https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/ ) that is a license of OSM data - https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright ) has requirement to include attribution reasonably calculated to make any Person that views the map aware that Content was obtained from the OpenStreetMap and that it is available under the ODBL License.

Hidden attribution does not fullfill it.

"include a notice associated with the Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any Person that uses, views, accesses, interacts with, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work aware that Content was obtained from the Database, Derivative Database, or the Database as part of a Collective Database, and that it is available under this License."

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

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Post by ornel »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #144
Biganon wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Too bad, maps.me was by far the best maps application for non city use Was it? The only time I tried to use it to find my way with a car in a forest, it guided me towards a road that simply wasn't there. It was on the map, and in real life it was just trees. My friend, who was driving, wasn't too happy. I switched to Google Maps and it worked.

I'm guessing GP is European and you're American. There are significant issues with OSM data in the rural US.

Google Maps in next to unusable in rural areas of the third world (as far as I have seen) with unpaved roads. I guess there is no business case for Google in spending money to map those areas

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

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Post by pashky »

busrf wrote: post #197
qrian wrote: post #92

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://m…

Yeah the original press release from mail.ru [1] says "Daegu Limited (member of Parity.com Group)". It is not at all clear that this is a Korean company. [1]: https://corp.mail.ru/en/press/releases/10761/

Looks like a Cyprus registered entity for Russian owned Switzerland headquartered company. No Korea in sight.

https://efiling.drcor.mcit.gov.cy/DrcorPublic/SearchResults.... https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/MAIL/mail-r...

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Post by brnt »

ce4 wrote: post #168
brnt wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't find it on F-droid, perhaps under a different name?

Maps (Offline OpenStreetMap maps) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.maps Source is hosted here: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/tree/HEAD

Thanks, but thats maps.me, not mapy.cz, right?

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

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Post by mackrevinack »

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…

I always found maps.me to me much easier than osmand to start navigation by using the "to here" and "from here" buttons, but osmand is still better than nothing at least.

the thing I love about offline maps is that there is no nagging to update the map like there is with google. I also don't think that google downloads everything so you still need an internet connection if you want to search for some things

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

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Post by andrewshadura »

The_Colonel wrote: post #187
RivieraKid wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always wondered, why is there such a massive difference in popularity of this app in and outside of Czechia? Do you think it's mainly - lack of focus on non-Czech user experience (poor translations, map layer looking worse, ...), lack of marketing, something else?

1. Mapy.cz is not marketed outside of Czechoslovakia. 2. It has its own (high quality) map data only for Czechoslovakia, outside it uses "just" OSM, although you'll get arguably superior rendering there.

Czechoslovakia is not a country and hasn’t been for 28 years.

Mapy.cz uses OSM data worldwide except Czechia, where they have their own dataset.

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

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Post by andrewshadura »

brnt wrote: post #205
ce4 wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maps (Offline OpenStreetMap maps) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.maps Source is hosted here: https://gitlab.com/axet/omim/tree/HEAD

Thanks, but thats maps.me, not mapy.cz, right?

Mapy.cz is not free software.
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