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oleg_rswll @sopuli.xyz

1mo ago

Why Global Travelers Are Switching to Community-Powered Maps

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Google maps also keeps on fucking up of the UI, or removing basic features like a simple fucking scale to estimate distance between two points.
Did I miss something, what are they referring to?
CoMaps was launched after governance concerns emerged within the Organic Maps project. The creation of a new initiative was to have principles of transparency, open collaboration and community empowerment.
- This was the open letter they posted (I'm not particularly familiar with the situation, but read through a bit of it when they announced the fork): https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c
- Here's something from today:
  EDIT: And now they have deleted more, so the end now looks like this (compare the timestamps between the images and look at my phone's clock in the upper right corner):
  
  So you're saying they're cleaning up the site?

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