this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
34 points (97.2% liked)
OpenStreetMap community
4732 readers
7 users here now
Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org/.
There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community/
https://mapcomplete.org/ is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)
https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
So I just looked into this because I don't seem to be missing any "essential features" and it seems that there are major differences between the corporate Store version and the F-Droid version that I use. Pretty hard making sense of it all but it seems that on the FOSS version some otherwise paid features are free (including map downloads), I guess because there would be no mechanism to charge for them when there's no app-store account. Others don't seem to be available at all, but apparently I don't want those.
Anyway, the fact that they publish on F-Droid is the reason I've used this app for over a decade and why I never miss an opportunity to shill for it, like right now. Which I hope counts as payment in kind.