biodranik

Joined 7 years ago

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98
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23
Member since
Feb 11
Cofounder @ Organic Maps, and VibroBox, creator of MapsWithMe and Maps.Me
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Comment · 9 months ago
Organic Maps has more features, and will have even more features.
Comment · 1 year ago
The code used by the fork was never published. It was stolen from a private repository and a private server, and then published/used in the fork without the authors' approval. That's a serious legal issue.

The fork also took the new website design that was developed for Organic Maps even before the Organic Maps website was updated.

Don't believe everything on the internet; there are many lies spread around.

Comment · 1 year ago
No, you got it wrong.

Roman supported the private repo and was aware of the temporary (last 3 days only) CF logs to address CDN abuse. However, several hours ago, he (or someone else using his account?) unexpectedly made the repository public without discussing it with the project's maintainers. As a result, his account rights were temporarily restricted to clarify the situation.

There is still no response from Roman regarding his motivation for ignoring the usual governing board rules. Previously, all similar important project decisions were always discussed with maintainers/active contributors before being executed.

I hope that we resolve this strange situation successfully soon.

Comment · 2 years ago
This wasn't a review process for a new update. The already approved app version was unexpectedly removed without any warnings.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
The original subway validator was created by the original (before the second sale) maps.me team. Now it is supported voluntarily.
Comment · 3 years ago
We pay it out of pocket or from users' donations.
Comment · 3 years ago
Please make sure that you have up-to-date app and maps data, and tell us where you see cross-border routing issues. There's an easy way to report it from the app using "Report a bug" button in the About dialog.
Comment · 3 years ago
Can you please send us more details about non-working search queries at support [at] organicmaps.app (or report it on our Github), considering that addresses or POIs that you're searching for are _present_ on osm.org ?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
We're actively improving our search in every release. Stay tuned!
Comment · 3 years ago
New owners of Maps.Me ruined the offline UX in one of the updates in 2020. We could not allow our "baby" to die like this.

The project runs on our own money and users' donations.

With enough support, we can replace Google Maps in most use-cases in the future. Because we are listening to our users, and are actively using Organic Maps ourselves.

Comment · 3 years ago
What about iOS?
Comment · 3 years ago
This feature is planned, please check our Github and other 1800+ features/issues :)

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