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Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by raybb on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:26PM (#27580738)
I wonder what the story is of why this is a fork of maps.me? How was maps.me taken away from the founders?
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Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by npteljes on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:01PM (#27581800)
Maps.me was bought by another entity [0] and not everyone liked the changes.

The forks, like Maps and now OrganicMaps, still use the map packages hosted by Mapswithme though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515004

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