@organicmaps Nice! Looking forward to see this city tour maps in #organicMaps app! But, is there any chance of having also city public transport lines? I see there is a metro layer in some cities but other transports like bus/tram are not visible, but in #openstreetmaps web version, they are available.

@guerda @organicmaps Alternativ hätte man für 8€ sein Monatsvolumen bei #congstar resetten können und zusätzlich zur Navigation mit #organicmaps auch die üblichen Dienste wie streaming laufen lassen können. Aber nett ist es in jedemfall.

@kasimir
#OsmAnd nutzt auch #OSM Daten und ist meiner Meinung nach besser als #OrganicMaps beim Fahrrad-Routing.

FOSS NEWS

Proton Drive and Docs get support for collaboration with users without Proton account:
https://proton.me/blog/improve-productivity-collaboration-proton-drive

Organic Maps migrates repos to their own Forgejo instance, because they got blocked by GitHub, because a dev was temporarily geolocated in a US-sanctioned region:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/organic-maps-migrates-to-forgejo-due-to-github-account-blocked-by-microsoft/
(Why does GitHub have to know the geolocation of their users in the first place? But at least the Organic Maps project has the capacity to self-host, they successfully took control into their own hands.)

ReactOS 0.4.15 released with kernel improvements, improved hardware support, support for additional audio formats, multiple output channels etc:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/reactos-the-open-source-windows-compatible-os-just-shipped-its-biggest-release-to-date/

MPV 0.40 released with native HDR support on Linux, Wayland color management protocol support, new script for video alignment and zooming, new selection menu when right-clicking common buttons etc:
https://9to5linux.com/mpv-0-40-open-source-video-player-released-with-native-hdr-support-on-linux

Shotcut 25.03 released with ‘Text style’ preset to the ‘Generate Text on Timeline’ function in Subtitles, ‘Copy Current’ and ‘Copy All’ options to Filters, vertical and horizontal parameters to the No Sync video filter, a ‘Toggle Filter Overlay’ option to the Player menu etc:
https://9to5linux.com/shotcut-25-03-open-source-video-editor-released-with-various-new-features

Ente Photos v1 released with encrypted data stored in three separate clouds, in three different locations; on-device search capabilities for people and objects in photos, ability to automatically highlight past special moments and important people, with a widget option to relive these memories directly from the home screen etc:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/ente-has-finally-released-the-v1-of-its-end-to-end-encrypted-photo-video-cloud-storage-app/

XZ Utils 5.8 released with performance boost for the liblzma compression library; new --no-sync option; xz, xzdec, and lzmainfo components updated to replace non-printable characters with question marks when printing messages (to prevent malicious filenames from sending escape sequences to a terminal) etc:
https://9to5linux.com/xz-utils-5-8-introduces-performance-improvements-in-the-lzma-lzma2-decoder

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Every other mapping app can manage a "north is up" orientation, but as far as I can tell this app cannot, and I did a lot of messing around with app settings in the process. It's also hit or miss at being able to pinpoint a location even when given a street address. Not to mention that it took me a few tries just to figure out how to make it give me point to point directions (which only sometimes conform to an average person's route).

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@ligasser

OrganicMaps recently moved to Forgejo.

#organicmaps #forgejo #Codeberg

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