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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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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…

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

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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).

Did you already have a Mac? Because that seems like a significant part of the process if it is stil necessary.

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

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I wish openstreetmap used elevation data for hiking. Say I want to climb to a hill back, it should calculate distance w.r.t elevation. Right now it assumes a straight line be it on a road or up and down a mountain.

When using GraphHopper this is not the case. For hiking elevation is considered but hills are not explicitly avoided only slower for up and downhill. For bike we avoid uphill.

https://graphhopper.com/maps/ (click the dots near the bike icon for more profiles)

And the best is: everything is open source and you can easily tweak it according to your needs.

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

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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…

It is insignificant.

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

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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!

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?

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

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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…

> 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.

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

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They also have a mobile app with downloadable maps. Look for Mapy.cz. I used it throughout whole Europe, and found it superior to even local apps (map content) and OSMAnd (map rendering).

can you contribute to OSM like with maps.me ?

AFAIK to a degree.

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

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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.

No, and they won't because it's against Apple's terms of service to license your app as GPL.
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