Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
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Shit. I live in Denmark. How do you download a whole github repository, commits, issues and all?
You can make git clone and get all the code and commits.
Issues are a GitHub feature and they cannot be downloaded by a simple git command -
There is some serious crapitalist hate for organic maps. I never heard of it util is was taken off the play store for a bit. I side loaded it that day.
Organic Maps is not at feature parity with paid options but it is pretty damn good for FOSS. I use it almost daily for driving around city/suburban Australia and it very rarely gives me bad directions - certainly no more than the paid option i previously used (Sygic).
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Oh come on, it was a really big deal. M$ bought GitHub. FOSS collectively shit itself for a week
It was also ages ago. Any discussion of it will have long since died down so if OP is new to programming then they won't have come across this.
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Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as "from a US-sanctioned region" and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.
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Organic Maps is not at feature parity with paid options but it is pretty damn good for FOSS. I use it almost daily for driving around city/suburban Australia and it very rarely gives me bad directions - certainly no more than the paid option i previously used (Sygic).
Its also a really great base project to build on top of. The routing system is a plug in library which can be easily replaced. That means if someone wants to build something that collects and utilizes live data for traffic/construction avoidance they can totally do that. Adding new map layers is also a big one that they made sure is going to be easy to do.
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Nice! It even supports the same RSS feed format. For anyone who also wants FOSS releases injected straight into their veins https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps/releases.atom
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"US sanctioned region" is russia. The developer team fully consist of russian citizens, some of them are still in russia.
The developer team fully consist of russian citizens
I dont think thats correct. Do you have a source?
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you can shit and fuck and cock and ass. it's the internet
Could you like, stop policing other peoples speech? I am sure they know they can say shit on the internet, they just choose not to.
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The developer team fully consist of russian citizens
I dont think thats correct. Do you have a source?
I was wrong, not entirely, but 6-7 out of 10. Had to doublecheck.
https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/peopleAnd there's a wiki page on maps.me(founders are the same, they just sold it and forked a few years later to create organicmaps)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps.me -
Foregejo : codeberg = lemmy : blahaj.zone
Forgejo being a fork of gitea
And gitea is the fork of gogs, just to complete the family tree
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I was wrong, not entirely, but 6-7 out of 10. Had to doublecheck.
https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/peopleAnd there's a wiki page on maps.me(founders are the same, they just sold it and forked a few years later to create organicmaps)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps.meThe only person on this list that lives in Russia is Alexey Naumenko. So what are you yappin about.
mapsme: founded by Yury Melnichek, later joined by Alexander Borsuk and Viktor Govako
organicmaps: founded by Roman Tsisyk (completely unrelated to mapsme) and later joined by Alexander Borsuk and Viktor Govako
So the founders are not the same, but some devs from the old project joined organic maps.
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https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
sanctioned region
What's that?
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Who could have ever anticipated Git hub going to shoot after Microsoft bought it
don't worry more ai slop in github will fix it
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Why did they get removed? I feel like I'm missing a whole backstory here.
Apparently, one of the contributors did a push while visiting Cuba and since Cuba in sanctioned by US they just blocked the entire repo. Insane.
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sanctioned region
What's that?
A country the USA doesn't like
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So wait.
GitHub is Microsoft?
If you like VSCode you can try VSCodium which supports almost all features of VSCode but should be fully FOSS without Microsoft proprietary blobs.
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Good question. Commits are easy - they are part of git core functionalities so are included in every copy of the repository (for example developers' local copies) but github specific contents like comments, issues, PRs..?
This should also be part of git repo (but maybe not downloaded through typical git clone as it might be too large though). Has developers of git ever considered doing this?
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is forgejo the same thing as codeberg? it looks similar.. just curious
Forgejo is such a terrible name
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The only person on this list that lives in Russia is Alexey Naumenko. So what are you yappin about.
mapsme: founded by Yury Melnichek, later joined by Alexander Borsuk and Viktor Govako
organicmaps: founded by Roman Tsisyk (completely unrelated to mapsme) and later joined by Alexander Borsuk and Viktor Govako
So the founders are not the same, but some devs from the old project joined organic maps.
Not really nice of you to edit the message after it was replied to.
Changing your github profile location does not mean neither factual relocation, nor changing citizenship.
yappin
Just adding context, because thir wording makes everyone think like "out of the blue, by some stupid coincidence one of the developers possibly seemed to be somewhere around some misteruous sanctioned region" -
Not really nice of you to edit the message after it was replied to.
Changing your github profile location does not mean neither factual relocation, nor changing citizenship.
yappin
Just adding context, because thir wording makes everyone think like "out of the blue, by some stupid coincidence one of the developers possibly seemed to be somewhere around some misteruous sanctioned region"Not really nice of you to edit the message after it was replied to.
My last edit was at: Saturday, March 29th, 2025 at 9:34:06 AM GMT+01:00
Your comment was posted at: Saturday, March 29th, 2025 at 9:45:53 AM GMT+01:00
