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Re:A community-led fork of Organic Maps by palata on Monday May 12, 2025 @11:16AM (#43964005)
> I don't know why they went for something other than MapLibre.

OSMAnd existed looong before MapLibre :-).

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Re:A community-led fork of Organic Maps by maelito on Monday May 12, 2025 @03:48PM (#43966814)
Sorry, what I wanted to say is I don't know why they stick with their stack, instead of doing like Streetcomplete.
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Re:A community-led fork of Organic Maps by palata on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:43PM (#43967752)
It most likely involves a lot more than "just swapping the maps engine". Everything is built on top of their stack. It would basically mean rewriting an app from scratch.
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