Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareholders, often without input from the broader contributor community.
These shareholders have reportedly used the project’s donation funds for personal expenses, like holiday trips, raising serious concerns about financial transparency.
If you listen to the CoMaps developers’ perspective, they’re naturally going to talk up their competitors at Organic Maps. In any case, Organic Maps another open-source map, free and open to everyone. And new features are added much faster than in CoMaps (public transportation, hiking style, alternative routing). Try both options and choose the one that works best for you.
Organic Maps is also technically committing tax fraud by paying the owners dividends but no salaries. They’re making quite a bit off the donations too. All of which was pocketed.
https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
Which is why they forked CoMaps.
Oh wow, thanks for letting me know
If you listen to the CoMaps developers’ perspective, they’re naturally going to talk up their competitors at Organic Maps. In any case, Organic Maps another open-source map, free and open to everyone. And new features are added much faster than in CoMaps (public transportation, hiking style, alternative routing). Try both options and choose the one that works best for you.
Why are 100% of your comments shilling for Organic Maps? Just curious.
Maksim is a Russian name, Organic Maps creators are Russian and Belarussian. Could literally be a friend of theirs lol
Organic Maps is also technically committing tax fraud by paying the owners dividends but no salaries. They’re making quite a bit off the donations too. All of which was pocketed.