Organic Maps leadership became sus, so the community forked.

More details here: https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

tl;dr they began to introduce proprietary code and were caught using project funds on personal expenses and vacations.

They recently made it to backup to the android file system so you might be able to back it up to Nextcloud using the Nextcloud app

https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/626

I think it's a brand new organic maps fork

If you're happy with osmand there's no point to switching IMHO. It's a much more simplified interface, so customization especially compared to the enormous options in osmand are relatively limited.

That being said it does work just as well, judging from the little use I've had.

Or just use droid-ify

Can you use this "co-maps" with a selfhosted osmand instance and not require any network tethered service?

better search, FOR SURE. search actually shows stuff in my area and not some random place in the middle of nowhere on the first items

I had to enable the Tethered Network Services anti-feature in F-Droid for CoMaps to show up.

Fdroid official app is still outdae to me. Repo doesn't automatically update itself and so on. I shifted to Droid-ify. Try that

assuming you tried to update the repos, your repo mirror might be outdated

Yeah, like if they did something crazy, like sponsored Kayak links

I had to go in Settings > Include Anti-Features and enable Tethered Network Services for it to show up.

Update your repository?

I use Droidify and its there

I guess it's not a big deal to someone who wasn't using / aware of OrganicMaps, but it is huge to us who loved OM.

The community is incredibly disappointed of the owners of the project (shareholders, original developers) when the volunteer force of the open-source map application wrote a revealing openletter to the owners.

The owners had been misusing the donations / funding of the project - as well as possibly (honestly, most likely) planning to sell out after years of people giving the project their free time (there is much more to this, but I'll keep it short. See the openletter for more info)

CoMaps is a community fork of OrganicMaps, so it is incredibly exciting that the FOSS volunteers have been able to fork the project, set up and organize everything, and are going forward at this speed!

It truly shows the power of FOSS and how companies can't just take something away from all the people who contributed for free and out of passion.

Hope that answers your question! :)

Edit: added more context.

It's a really nice app for openstreetmap data, beautiful even. I also find the UI really nice and uncluttered and intuitive to use. Best of all: allows you to contribute to openstreetmap directly inside the app!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do :)