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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Opensource@programming.dev · 2 months ago

Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born

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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Opensource@programming.dev · 2 months ago
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An Organic Maps fork has emerged due to broken trust.
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    This is great that they’re forking but do that have to continue the OSS tradition of terrible app names?

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      The name was voted by the community. There were a lot of very good names that unfortunately were already being used by other projects. I’m not a fan of the final choice either.

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        When you hold a vote you get suggestions like Mappy mcmapface. Actually, that could work…

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        And, It’s not even unique.

        On the iOS App Store, for example, there is:

        • MyCOMAP
        • COMAP
        • ComAp Helpcentre
        • MYCOMAP BALANCING
        • and two apps from a company named COMAP S.A.
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          Yes, it was pointed out that CoMaps was also the name of a business operating in… maps. So if the project gets traction, they’ll likely be sued into a better name.

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      Yes.

      • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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        “Come, try our new open-source product… Toefungus maps.”

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          That one is at least memorable.

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      Magic Earth enters the chat.

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      CoMaps is a good name, wtf

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        I like the name too, but I tried searching for it and I got results for compass. Lol

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          I mean, it’s new.

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          Disable your auto spellchecker!

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