They need another source of funding, maybe cutting salaries of the Cs would work for one.
I don’t think this is them focussing back on the browser, especially looking at the job listings posted in another comment. It seems to me it’s just a focus on AI, probably in the hope of making money.
They have an app though, do you not like it?
I think I remember reading some comments in a previous blogpost that it wasn’t really in the near-future roadmap at least. I think there are a couple good android calendar apps without needing Thunderbird to port that. RSS sync would be great though, I’d love that too.
As far as I know there is unfortunately no good webapp using OSM.
I guess graphopper is probably the best but I don’t personally like it that much. You can create a route with it 1nd send the gpx file to your phone and open it Osmand and then follow that. It’s nothing like using the Google maps feature send to phone or email because you can’t really modify it then.
Apparently it’s the same guy doing both from the headline. Didn’t read the article to be honest.
Surely as it does have a user base somebody would take over in that case even as a fork for brand reasons or whatever.
Public transit navigation is possible in Osmand but there will not times just the routes and only if the data is present in Openstreetmap and that pretty rare, really depends where you live.
Osmand does have a plugin for open reviews or something and I think I saw there were plans to use another source too. I guess, on top of photos from Wikimedia and mapillary it is trying to become a bit like Google Maps in a way…
There is also a plugin for mapillary street view that doesn’t work too bad.
Only missing a Web app for desktop.
You are supposed to use an app and not the website for navigation and generally looking 1t the map.
On android the best two IMHO are Osmand and Organic Maps but depending on what you what there are others. Many on F-Droid. Osmand also has an ios app.
Organic maps is quite nice.
What and why is Osmand tracking us. Are they actually selling that data. I had completely missed that. Weirdly didn’t get and email…
Reminds me how librivox and others publish their audiobooks as podcasts. I guess artists could upload their albums like this?
Thanks for sharing this
I don’t see how this is such a big issue. Would feel weird to not be able to change username per server. Sometimes as my name for playing with friends or a pseudonyme if playing with strangers?