BrioxorMorbide@lemm.eetoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•StreetComplete: An app for those who want to contribute to OpenStreetMapEnglish
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2 years agoSomewhat shortened translation:
This mainly refers to jawg.io, the commercial cloud service that serves the basic map. The map itself is 100% OSM data, but the service isn’t free. OSM themselves don’t offer a vector tile server, not even for editors.
Also, F-Droid gives every app with a hard-coded network dependency the NonFreeNet flag, including e.g. api.openstreetmap.org.
They’re discussing a new anti-feature like SiloedNet for such cases, because at the moment NonFreeNet is pretty useless, e.g. a Wikipedia reader gets that flag too.
Because they don’t understand that voting is just one part of the democratic process.