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100% agree - I think even some of the CoMaps contributors use OsmAnd for the rare specialist use cases. I know I do: CoMaps is my main map app that I use basically every day and works perfectly for all of my common/normal use cases. but once in a while I have a map/nav need beyond that and then OsmAnd's customizability is great!

Since a few weeks CoMaps updates its map data roughly every week, so maps are a lot fresher now (also compared to Organic Maps :))

nope, that's on Android, installed via Accrescent

when opening the page for a place, the bottom for me regularly displays the "donation" ask which in good big tech fashion gives you the "ask again later" option.

the original developers of MM then just started to do the same to OM by equally aggressively ask for money :p

OrganicMaps rolled their own 'data license' for the actual map files: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/DATA_...

Plus the code that's necessary to generate the map files that OM relies on is no longer openly published. So while true that the actual app code is open source, you can't use it without relying on their proprietary map files.

Creating an org or joining a fiscal host are two things the community is currently exploring to avoid exactly those issues, you can find the Governance discussions and decisions on their Codeberg repo here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/

You can read the reasons for the fork here: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-04-16/1/

> That said, if you're just looking for a simple maps app, I suppose OsmAnd could be quite overwhelming and this would probably be a lot better.

That's the main draw of CoMaps to me. I also have OsmAnd installed and it's useful for more complex uses, but for a quick lookup CoMaps works a lot better for me. OsmAnd is more the swiss army knife of navigation tools, with all the complexity that means.

Launched for iOS and Android today

I guess up to a point that's also the case, but it's harder to quantify when they found out about it. And sure, it's used basically world-wide by now, but there are still inter-country differences that aren't only explained by the time people learned about sci-hub :-)

Author of the post here: I know no researcher in the life sciences who's using the university search systems. Instead people are mostly using Pubmed or Google Scholar.

But that doesn't solve the access: Finding the PDF you want on the publishers website can be a huge pain. So people just paste the DOI/Pubmed-ID etc. into Sci-Hub to get right to the PDF.

Hope that makes some sense :-)