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offline magic earth requires now a 15€ subscription (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by illusionist@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I liked using it but 15€/year for navigation is too much for me. I'm going to stick to osmand now. At least osmand is open source. It has roughly the same features. It's just not that beautiful. I paid for osmand btw. What's your alternative?

Edit: And I like paying for osmand because it is open source.

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[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean it's open source, so you can help out. And there's no standard for publishing public transport time tables, so it is an incredibly hard task to stay on top of updates from even a single country's bus and train companies.

[+] basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pretty much the entire OSM sphere is developed and populated by volunteers. And they you come along and say they should take their heads out of their ass. Yes, the burden is on the users, because the developers are users themselves. No, not everyone has programming skills, but even nontechnical people can still contribute to the dataset with bus station locations and bus routes.

It's completely okay to not use a piece of software, and if you have some feedback to give that might sway you, great! But don't insult the developers because they have limited time and resources.