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Organic Maps got removed from Google Play Store.

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/23834340

Mastodon Post.

Apk Link: cdn.organicmaps.app/…/OrganicMaps-24081605-Google…

Note: If you don’t want to deal with stuff like this, I recommend you download and use it from F-Droid client or Accrescent AppStore.

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Evil_Shrubbery ,

Oh noo, right in the monopoly!!

Unless Organic Maps has a sexy dating game going on I don’t know about.

Coldcell ,

This is so weird because I installed OrganicMaps literally 2 days ago as part of a house-wide “fuck Google”. I’ve purged all machines of chrome, switched to duckduckgo, and changed my maps app. The “do no evil” has been cordycepys’d into a money fuelled corpo shitstain and deserves to collapse.

Fuck google.

BearOfaTime ,

So can’t wait to finish moving away from Play apps and having Play on my phone at all.

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

I hadn’t heard about Organic Maps, but now I just installed it through F-droid.

cabbage , (edited )
@cabbage@piefed.social avatar

Organic Maps is fantastic. I particularly use it for hiking, and it's fantastic. It finds some amazing trails that I would otherwise never have gone to. Sometimes they can be challenging or overgrown, so you have to know what you're doing and be prepared to turn back if necessary, but I owe a lot of truly incredible experiences to this app.

It originates as a fork of Maps.me, from when Maps.me changed to closed source. Since then Organic Maps has grown to become a lot better than the project it originates from, at least according to my preferences.

Tanoh ,

Sometimes they can be challenging or overgrown, so you have to know what you’re doing and be prepared to turn back if necessary, but I owe a lot of truly incredible experiences to this app.

Since it uses OpenStreetMap you should consider updating it for others later. Don’t think you can do it in Organic, but it can be as simple as in a browser adding a note to a trail about what state it is in.

cabbage ,
@cabbage@piefed.social avatar

Sometimes it seems to know that the paths are not the best, and I really force it to take the path I choose instead of more convenient ones. So it only suggests the rugged paths when I insist it goes "there, but via there there and there". Generally I can make it through, and how overgrown a path is can change by the season, so it's a bit tricky. At one point in Italy though I ended up at a Via Ferrata, at which point I obviously had to turn back.

I have Street Complete installed, so I've started leaving notes using that whenever I notice any issues. And to make contributions now and then, of course. :)

teuto ,

It’s the best. I started using it because it let me pre download as many regions as I wanted unlike OSMand. Having android auto integration is nice even if it’s very rough around the edges. Unfortunately google blocks android auto on non-play store versions because google.

299792458ms ,

What the hell are those requirements?, if they want to protect children they should check those brain rot “Love Stories” apps and some other more insidious apps flying around.

AndrewZabar ,

They don’t want to protect children. They want only one thing ever: money. Therefore you can be sure that whatever is going on, it could be some kind of technical requirement but if it’s not, it’s about money.

lemmee_in ,

Organic Maps :

No Ads ✅

No Telemetry ✅

Google :

Does it make us money? ❌

lvxferre ,
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Interesting detail: note how it does not mention or even try to explain what would be allegedly violating the families program eligibility. This is likely part of Google’s procedures to tire the devs down.

If the dev is smart they should be capitalising on that nice, nice Streisand effect. “Google uses its monopoly over app store to remove competitor Organic Maps”. Remember - against Google you don’t need to pull your punches, you can go all out.

I also hope that the dev uses the opportunity to advertise F-Droid. BTW I’m installing this right now.

Bonesince1997 ,

New map program acquired!

Kethal ,

It sounds neat. Offline maps. If Google hadn’t banned it I would have never heard of it. It’s on F-droid too for those who don’t want to download and install an apk.

catloaf ,

f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/

CAVOK ,

Get StreetComplete while you’re at it and help improve the maps in a Pokemon-Go style mobile game.

skuzz ,

Offline maps are the way to go. I made a habit of having all of the US always stored in my phone just in case something bad happened. Only takes 12GB or so. Cell service can be spotty in large parts of the country so you can’t depend on Internet maps.

Then it paid off. Plane lost an engine mid-flight, had to emergency land 850 miles from where I needed to be, and off I went by rental car with map in hand…er…cupholder.

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