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We have recently received a trust score by 9.6 out of 10 from "European & Open Source Alternatives", a website that wants to help people find trustworthy alternatives to Big Tech.
With that stellar rating, we are currently the top-rated alternative in the Maps category, side-by-side with our friends from #OpenStreetMap ❤️
Check out how that score was calculated for us, and other map alternatives here: https://european-alternatives.cloud/en/browse?category=maps
Basically concerns from contributors about the governance structure of the project and how their drive for profit may impact it. And how this FOSS project with significant community contributions has it’s shareholders (yes it has shareholders) considering it their sole property.
There was some controversy about Organicmaps and Comaps ended up as fork afterwards.
So better to use Comaps.
can you give a tldr of the contorversy, i havent heard of it until now
The shareholders basically tried to enshittify it
https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
Basically concerns from contributors about the governance structure of the project and how their drive for profit may impact it. And how this FOSS project with significant community contributions has it’s shareholders (yes it has shareholders) considering it their sole property.
There’s a little on Wikipedia here.
And an open letter: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c
Oh, I had no idea. Thanks. I’ll look into it. I use OM.