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[–] 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I've never seen Magic Earth, but as an OSM contributor, I don't understand why I'd use a subscription service when all the underlying data is free (as in beer and freedom) and contributed by volunteers (and likely not the app devs). One-time app purchases like OsmAnd I understand because you're doing stuff with the data like routing, overlays, etc., and that requires development work. But a subscription seems absurd.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I use both. CoMaps when I can, but Magic Earth has a better business data set and better traffic data right now. I also contribute to OSM when I can, but there is a lot of missing data.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Well, I just reverted to an old version of Magic Earth so I could keep getting traffic info. That's literally the only tjing stopping me from other OSM apps like CoMaps. I wanna know if an accident happened or my usual route is blocked for some reason.

    But yeah I hate their shitty subscription lol.

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