Why Global Travelers Are Switching to Community-Powered Maps

https://medium.com/@oleg_risewell/why-global-travelers-are-switching-to-community-powered-maps-5684df24381c

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InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1y

Google maps also keeps on fucking up of the UI, or removing basic features like a simple fucking scale to estimate distance between two points.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Did I miss something, what are they referring to?

CoMaps was launched after governance concerns emerged within the Organic Maps project. The creation of a new initiative was to have principles of transparency, open collaboration and community empowerment.

crank0271@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

This was the open letter they posted (I'm not particularly familiar with the situation, but read through a bit of it when they announced the fork): https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Here's something from today:

EDIT: And now they have deleted more, so the end now looks like this (compare the timestamps between the images and look at my phone's clock in the upper right corner):

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

So you're saying they're cleaning up the site?

Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I do not understand the question. Could you maybe paraphrase, please?

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What are you trying to say with this information?

Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

They are doing surprisingly extensive censorship in their Matrix chat. I do not know what the first deleted messages had said, but you can see there that they deleted a message saying "I wanted to reply but now forgot about the exact text you wrote. It's fine... no hard feelings. Organic Maps had a great moment when we were all together and I was happy to be part of that. I still had hopes that reconciliation was possible but the concerns were never addressed and sadly things didn't change :( Maybe in the future this may change"

Seems like a rather extensive use of the "delete comment" button. Feeling a need for that level of censorship is a bit scary to me.

I posted those screenshots because I opened their Matrix channel, saw this conversation going on, and was surprised. I had previously ever been active on that chat for 10 minutes only, some week ago or so, and when opening it again I saw this kind of crap going on. And felt like it's something that should be shared for others to see.