Organic Maps, the privacy-focused, open-source alternative to Google Maps, celebrates its 4th anniversary. The project came to life during Christmas week of 202…
Interesting that the post is showing Prague. I think it’s a nod to the influx of Czech users after our most popular map app, Mapy.cz by Seznam.cz, underwent enshittification to accomodate a premium tier.
It’s especially good for the Czech Republic, the rest is just an OSM reskin (still good though). If you stop updating at 9.55.2 (9550200), you will still get the premium feature (multi-country offline maps) for free and without downsides, AFAIK. However, they have stopped server support for old versions before and it’s pretty much impossible to unofficially import the map data without root.
Interesting that the post is showing Prague. I think it’s a nod to the influx of Czech users after our most popular map app, Mapy.cz by Seznam.cz, underwent enshittification to accomodate a premium tier.
Mapy.cz is still quite decent. I live in Italy and a few friends happen to know about it and praise it.
It’s especially good for the Czech Republic, the rest is just an OSM reskin (still good though). If you stop updating at 9.55.2 (9550200), you will still get the premium feature (multi-country offline maps) for free and without downsides, AFAIK. However, they have stopped server support for old versions before and it’s pretty much impossible to unofficially import the map data without root.