• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    This app seems to target exactly the same niche as Osmand.

    Seems like unnecessary dissipation of FOSS effort and resources.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Osmand is a complete toolbox and offers many more features. Osmand is also only partially open source. Some bits are under CC Non-Commercial, so derivatives must first replace those bits to be fully FOSS compliant.

      Organic Maps is more focused. Fewer features but also easier to use. I’m not aware of any tricks like CC NC bits to make life harder for derivatives.

    • redd@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      OsmAnd offers much more features and is more complicated. OrganicMaps on the other side is a different development team and for beginners much easier to use.

      And as always. Competition is good.

      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        11 months ago

        But this is a well-trodden philosophical debate.

        Competition can also be a waste of resources. What if all the effort put into OM were put into Osmand, which already exists? Then we might get one amazing app instead of two okay ones.

        You’ll say that FOSS is different from commercial, that everyone is doing it from passion, etc. True, but sometimes narcissism is a factor too. Maybe not here, but sometimes. And the FOSS ethic should really be cooperation before competition, after all.

        Too simple to say that competition is good.