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Maps.me sale to a payment processor removed OpenStreetMap #14076

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StewAlexander-com opened this issue Dec 22, 2020 · 9 comments
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Maps.me sale to a payment processor removed OpenStreetMap #14076

StewAlexander-com opened this issue Dec 22, 2020 · 9 comments

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@StewAlexander-com
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StewAlexander-com commented Dec 22, 2020

Sale to http://parity.com moved app away from a working navigational tool to a payment processing application with little to do with the previous functionality

@StewAlexander-com StewAlexander-com changed the title Utterly pointless catastrophic move away from OpenStreetMaps Sale to a payment processor removed OpenStreetMapd Dec 22, 2020
@StewAlexander-com StewAlexander-com changed the title Sale to a payment processor removed OpenStreetMapd Sale to a payment processor removed OpenStreetMap Dec 22, 2020
@StewAlexander-com StewAlexander-com changed the title Sale to a payment processor removed OpenStreetMap Maps.me sale to a payment processor removed OpenStreetMap Dec 22, 2020
@resynth1943
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Will the app stay open-source?

@StewAlexander-com
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StewAlexander-com commented Dec 28, 2020

Unsure @resynth1943

@StewAlexander-com
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They however are responsive on Twitter

@StewAlexander-com
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Well they added back OpenStreetMaps... unknown if they are still doing anything with GitHub

@resynth1943
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Do they have an email I can contact, by any chance?

@Seandebasti
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Do they have an email I can contact, by any chance?

you can check the people in the whitepaper https://de.mapsme.parity.digital/token/MAPS.pdf
MAPS Whitepaper.pdf

@Seandebasti
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Well they added back OpenStreetMaps... unknown if they are still doing anything with GitHub

Is there still any updates? I just found some mentions about this question in telegram group and channel https://telegra.ph/What-happened-to-the-old-MAPSME-12-20

@StewAlexander-com
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Maps.Me has updated their app a few times, at least for iOS here in the USA...

But please see issue #14157, I'm fairly certain this is repo is defunct

@StewAlexander-com
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Closing as no longer maintained

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