cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/26271182

Name Ideas

Please comment with your name ideas.

Top level comments should just be the name. You can reasons and discuss each idea in the comments below each suggestion.

And vote on what you like!

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    20 days ago

    PSA: there is already a FOSS OSM maps client that predates Organic Maps by a decade and is much more powerful. It’s called OsmAnd.

    Personally I wish all you guys would get with the FOSS spirit and pool your efforts a bit more instead of forking things every two years and reinventing the wheel. A good maps app is a hard challenge, there’s not room for 10 of them.

    • pietervdvn@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      5·
      20 days ago

      I disagree. They both serve a different part of the market. OsmAnd is a heavy tool with thousands of features, Organic Maps is a lightweight tool for more general users. Both approaches have (dis)advantages.

    • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      18 days ago

      OsmAnd puts essential features behind a paywall, like unlimited map downloads and CarPlay support.

      • cantences@anonsys.net
        2·
        18 days ago

        @drspod
        If you download it from the Fdroid store, then you can download unlimited maps and Android Auto works. I don’t use CarPlay.

      • enemenemu@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        17 days ago

        Development costs money. It’s all open source. Osmand is great.

        I don’t understand the complain about money.

      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        18 days ago

        So I just looked into this because I don’t seem to be missing any “essential features” and it seems that there are major differences between the corporate Store version and the F-Droid version that I use. Pretty hard making sense of it all but it seems that on the FOSS version some otherwise paid features are free (including map downloads), I guess because there would be no mechanism to charge for them when there’s no app-store account. Others don’t seem to be available at all, but apparently I don’t want those.

        Anyway, the fact that they publish on F-Droid is the reason I’ve used this app for over a decade and why I never miss an opportunity to shill for it, like right now. Which I hope counts as payment in kind.

    • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      Here’s a bit of context: https://sopuli.xyz/post/25540134

      Organic Maps is an awesome FOSS mobile map application, it’s being forked because the shareholders of the company that “owns” Organic Maps haven’t been very transparent.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    20 days ago

    Local Maps?

    Community Maps?

    FOSS Maps?

    Public Maps?

    Public Street Maps?

    Social Street Maps?

    Mutual Maps?

    Native Maps?

    Natural Maps?

    Idk, I feel like it should be something that rolls off the tongue. Something easy to search and not awkward to recommend irl. Sucks because Organic Maps was pretty good in both those cases

    • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      OpenStreetMap is the registered trademark of OSM Foundation, and they ask to please don’t use mixed and confusing names like some of these for related projects. From the Trademark Policy:

      You may not:

      abbreviate the wordmarks, combine them with other words (“OpenStreetMapThing”), or substitute words in the mark (“OpenStreetThing” or “OpenThingMap”), especially where the new combination sounds similar to OpenStreetMap.

      While they usually allow the use for open projects, it would be just easier to respect the request of the Foundation.

      Sorry for copying my comment from the other thread, but it could help others here as well.