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2026-07-06 19:45 UTC

It's been a year since #CoMaps released, and I still have no idea whether it or #OrganicMaps is better. Both are open source, offline-first, and privacy respecting, although CoMaps seems to have made some claims that Organic Maps isn't, but I can't find indpendent evidence showing that is correct. Allegedly CoMaps added some new features, but I don't know if those features matter at all for my use, or if Organic Maps has merged them as well by now. Is there any meaningful difference between the two apps now? My biggest concern with using either of them is that the development of one might just stop and make me need to manually move all my data. As I understand it, this isn't a Glimpse situation (fork of GIMP made primarily to change the name that quickly lost steam and shut down in two years) or a PolyMC situation (maintainer went on a power trip and all the other developers and users fled, leaving the original project in a zombie state). So will the two projects continue to exist parallel to each other, meging changes from each other? Or will they diverge at some point? For that matters is it on Organic Maps or CoMaps that most development happens first? I don't expect an answer from anyone (much as it would be nice to get one); I'm just shouting into the void because nobody seems to be discussing this anywhere searchable.

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