It is sad to see in discussions like this how ugly human behaviour can be. Many people work together to create something good and meaningful only for a few greedy individuals to exploit it.

I hope that one day, in a distant future, humanity will experience an awakening and finally rise against the destructive traits we inherited from our long-gone ancestors.

Maybe bio-hacking will come to our help...but probably it will make everything worse first.

Related: https://newatlas.com/biology/evolution-modern-life-anthropoc...

The article is from June 13, 2025.

It's pretty funny that the first order of business for the fork was to debate a "design lead" role. They decided against and it looks like the app is totally functional https://www.comaps.app/

It is pretty interesting because it is true that design is better solo'd than committee'd. I wonder how open source communities usually solve these issues.

Been using it since, warmly recommended.

Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453888 (55 comments, 4 months ago)

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961908 (206 comments, May 2025)

I wish them the best. I tried getting off of Google Maps, and it became a safety / quality of life issue to return to it (for United States driving directions). I tried both CoMaps and Organic Maps. CoMaps really struggled to know what address I was referencing for driving directions (and would take minutes to sort out the directions for long trips, a task Google Maps knocks out in about a second with one server query). It also doesn't seem to have the traffic signal data (or has a worse source for it) that Google has access to, and since I live too close to a major city to ignore things like "public event causes massive traffic disruption," I need that traffic signal in my route planning.

That having been said, we could use better solutions than trusting huge megacorps with a task as vital as mapping and directions, so I want them to succeed.