Do you want to import or record?

To import: star button -> import bookmarks and tracks. Then you can just pick it from your file browser. You can’t use it for navigation, it’s just displayed as an overlay.

To record: Hamburger menu -> Record track

CoMaps has far less features, but that’s the point. Some people love the simplicity, they don’t need all the confusing and overwhelming options of osmand.

Osmand has some performance issues on some devices, but Comaps was generally much more responsive on any device I tried it.

CoMaps has 3d buildings. Its map is very nice, but this is subjective.

CoMaps aims to be fully FOSS, this was not true for its predecessors, OM and Maps.me. Osmand is not fully foss.

If you are perfectly happy with osmand you don’t really need it, but for new users who are only familiar with the very basic interfaces of other commercial map apps, it can be much more welcoming.

The full story is in the Open Letter, but it’s long: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

AI summary from this comment from the osm forum:

Concrete Issues Leading to the Open Letter

• Misuse of Donations: Alexander Borsuk allegedly used project donations to cover personal holiday expenses, raising concerns about financial integrity.
• Lack of Financial Transparency: Contributors were consistently denied access to financial information, including total donations received and expenditures.
• Secret Hiring Practices: The hiring of the first full-time developer in January 2024 was kept secret from contributors, who only learned about it months later.
• Closed Decision-Making: Key project decisions, such as agreements with external partners (e.g., Kayak.com), were made without informing or consulting contributors.
• Shareholder Control: The governance structure allowed shareholders to make unilateral decisions, sidelining the input of long-term contributors.
• Conflict Among Shareholders: A significant conflict between shareholders Roman Tsisyk and Alexander Borsuk has led to a breakdown in collaboration, jeopardizing project stability.
• Lack of Accountability: The board, composed solely of shareholders, failed to rotate members or ensure accountability, leading to a stagnant governance model.
• Potential for Profit Motives: Contributors expressed concerns that the project could be sold or monetized for shareholder profit, undermining its community-driven mission.
• Inadequate Communication: Shareholders did not adequately communicate the role of Organic Maps OÜ as a for-profit entity, leaving contributors unaware of its implications.
• Violation of Open Source Values: While the maps generator code is technically available, the version in production contains private changes that are not disclosed, and the server used for downloading maps operates with proprietary elements, contradicting the project’s stated commitment to Free and Open Source Software principles.

We don’t map temporary features: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Don’t_map_temporary_events_and_temporary_features

If the road closure is less than a month long it shouldn’t be on OSM. A lot of people use the map offline, it’s better to have the default “open” state on the map for them.

Clients are free to mix the OSM basemap with their proprietary data. E.g. Magic Earth has some live traffic data from 3rd parties and from its users, and you can report temporary closures in the app as well and it displays them while driving. (Unfortunately it doesn’t consider them for routing)

OSM is not a map service like Gmaps, it’s a geospatial database and a community maintaining the database. OSM by itself is not really usable for end users, CoMaps and others should build their services on top of the data. This is the reason it’s not licensed by some kind of CreativeCommons, but it has its own special license ODbL. It allows easier commercial usage than CC-BY-SA, which was used by OSM before 2012. https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Unsuitable

The routing was not working for the same reason. OSM does not route, as it’s just a database. It just displays a 3rd party routing engine which uses outdated data, from before your change.

You cannot follow everything from everything.

• From Mastodon you can follow Lemmy communities and Lemmy users. Some Lemmy communities name gets hashtags on mastodon, e.g. if you follow #idm there, you will see posts from !idm@lemmy.zip
• From Lemmy you cannot follow/subscribe to anything from Mastodon. You can see replies and posts of Mastodon users in Lemmy communities

If you want to follow all from one account with a Lemmy-like interface, the closest you can get is with Mbin. There you can follow Lemmy communities, Mastodon and Lemmy users. You cannot follow Mastodon hashtags though.

Wikipedia has a good article on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banker_horse

The mistery is they don’t know which European ship brought them there and when. There are multiple options.

Some reviews from the page:

IT is a port of a rather shallow mobile game to pc. They even retained the “get 10x currency when you watch an add” button, but removed the ads. In short, a waste of time and money

This game surprisingly doesn’t have any management aspect to it, it doesn’t have any explanation of buttons, nothing, I regret spending 3 euros on it, honestly

Doesn’t sound like mini metro to me.

That’s not an alternative frontend, but a different albeit very similar platform. With an alternative frontent you can see the same content, but with better and different features, usually without ads and with better privacy.

Instance independent link: !Ollama@lemmy.world

Share links to communities this way, so everyone can subscribe easily.

You should also post about this in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for better discoverability!

Very nice project! Thank you for using OpenStreetMap! I love it when the project I contribute to gets used in interesting projects like this!

But some quick notes, related to the map display: It’s called OpenStreetMap, there is no s at the end, written in CamelCase without spaces. The other more important problem is you forgot to include the attribution text on the map. For using OSM there is only one requirement, you have to display “© OpenStreetMap” somewhere on a corner of the map. More info about this on the website of the OSM foundation: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Guidelines

I see the attribution text is displayed on http://trails.tchncs.de/ but not on https://demo.wanderer.to/ so I don’t know what’s going on.

The basemap display on the demo website uses the tile server from openstreeetmap.org. This is very discouraged, and also can give bad experience to users. The tiles on osm.org are raster tiles, they are regenerated automatically after a change in the map data, they are aimed as a tool for map contributors, not end users. You can read more about this here: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/

There is a new totally free maplibre compatible vector tile provider, which uses the same map data, I recommend to switch to OpenFreeMap. Users can also self host OpenFreeMap, so some really privacy minded users could totally self host the full project this way.

External 80 to internal 80 and external 443 to internal 443

With this config you don’t have to deal with ports later, as http is 80, https is 443 by default.

If you run some container on port 81, you have to deal with that in the reverse proxy, not in the router. E.g. redirect something.domian.tld to 192.168.0.103:81

If you use docker check out nginxproxymanager, it has a very beginner friendly admin webui. You shouldn’t forward the admin ui’s port, you need to access it only from your lan.

!civ@lemm.ee merged with the existing !civ@lemmy.ca