I haven't followed the OM project closely, but thanks to the accidental discovery of the unofficial account I found out that the project is not adhering to the core principles of - AOS for Lemmy.World - A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.

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I haven't followed the OM project closely, but thanks to the accidental discovery of the unofficial account I found out that the project is not adhering to the core principles of

4mon 25d ago by mastodon.social/ap/users/115926634610969964 in organicmaps@sopuli.xyz

I haven't followed the OM project closely, but thanks to the accidental discovery of the unofficial @organicmaps account I found out that the project is not adhering to the core principles of open-source software. All the relevant links and a description of the situation: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

You are a bit late to the party, but good reminder in case people missed it. Because of this a fork was created a few months back that is now the new cool kid on the block. There is even a well maintained community on here for it. The new fork is called CoMaps:

The letter seems a bit meandering, it buries the important part half way down, and doesn't specify what those closed parts actually are.

a couple of months later in the team's internal chat he again argued against opening the de-facto closed parts of the maps generator code. It's still not completely open source.