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CoMaps

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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

https://www.comaps.app/

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Edit: official voting now happening here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/34

Please comment with your name ideas.

One name per comment.

Top level comments should just be the name. You can put reasons and discuss each idea in the comments below each suggestion.

And vote on what you like!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Keep CoMaps.

I like this name: it's cute, short and memorable. I also like that 'co-' can have multiple meanings (cooperation, coexisting, community, carbon monoxyde).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A quick search for comaps shows a couple different projects already using that name. comaps.de is some kind of map visualization. Using the comaps name could lead to some confusion.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)
[–] JackRiddle 8 points 1 month ago

I like folk maps, really gives the correct community/citizen cartography vibe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

+1 Folk Maps

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could you split it up so that it's one name per comment please? To make voting easier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure thing! I have the split the options into multiple comments.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A play on organic meaning carbon-based (as in organic chemistry). Also I feel like it should be easy(ish) for speakers of other languages to pronounce. I may be wrong though!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lief Maps

  • after explorer Lief Erickson
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alternate spelling of Leaf Maps as well (since most people will mis-hear and type the English word rather than the name) and maybe a leafy Lief is the mascot ;)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait I think I like this better

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's neat, but would cause confusion with https://leafmap.org/

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Delta Maps (like the fork in the river)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cartogrity (Cartography + Community)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I liked your suggestion quite a lot and came up with alternative based on it (the two words staying the same):

CartoUnity

[–] merde 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

@CubeOfCheese

"There is freedom within, there is freedom without"
"Don’t dream it’s over"

Seems appropriate for an Organic Maps fork 😄

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CoCoMaps (community + collaboration)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Origami Maps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's MapLibre - a fork of Mapbox before it went full commercial

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also http://libremap.org/ and https://github.com/libremap/ (different projects as far as I can tell, one of them dormant).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unfortunately there seems to be a number of existing software with this name.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Based on @[email protected] 's great suggestion, I thought of the slogan "Grass-fed, free-range, organic, and community-powered maps". And of course a cow for a mascot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think we can choose the name of a famous cartographer whose name is easy to pronounce in any language.

And then,

[Cartographer Name] + ["Maps" in your language]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cartographers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Under the 15th century heading, "Piri", the cartographer who prepared the top map among the sample maps shown there, would be a good name.

Or maybe, "Orbis" and "Battista" under the 16th century heading.

So Piri Maps, Orbis Maps, Battista Maps, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Common Maps

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately there seems to be existing software / websites with this name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In keeping with the "organic" theme, my submission is:

Free Range Maps

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'll duplicate it here

Pastk said: cOSMaps (co-OSM-maps) COSMOS Maps (Co-OSM-OpenSource)

And some ideas with the help of AI: COLABMAP (Collaborative Open Libre Access Based Mapping Application Platform) **COMMAP **Community Oriented Modern Mapping Access Project

to be honest, no word makes me completely satisfied.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe Green Map with an even greater focus on the durability of the app?

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