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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I use this for everything except driving. Organic Maps also makes it easy to add new new points to openstreetmaps :)

For driving I use Magic Earth. Not open source but their privacy policy states they don't sell your data or store PII.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Seems like Organic Maps aren't saints either.

Apparently the recent lack of updates on F-Droid is due to them including referral links for hotels and refusing to remove it or make it an opt-out feature...

Here's a relevant issue if anyone's interested: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/7218

//edit
Looking at the discussions it's even worse, the devs try to argue that F-Droid is being unfair and referral links shouldn't be "misclassified" as ads...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Yeah they advertise no ads, but then have referral links to Kayak in their app. Seems like the main devs have gone off their rockers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

While I agree that is not a great look, as long as they aren’t selling my location data and such I don’t really care. I only use it to go from a specific point A to point B, not look things up/find things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They're also doing the same thing with Google Play - arguing that collecting user emails for osm login doesn't count as collecting data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I always worry with Magic Earth... What's their business plan then? How are they making money?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried using Magic Earth and especially the driving mode is great and sometimes it worked flawlessly but I regularly had freezes and crashes. Do you have any issues with it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No unfortunately I haven't had crashes during my 2 years of using it, running on LineageOS with and without microg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm on a Fairphone 4 with e/os, maybe it's just not quick enough