Folk Maps
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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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.
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I like folk maps, really gives the correct community/citizen cartography vibe
+1 Folk Maps
Could you split it up so that it's one name per comment please? To make voting easier
Sure thing! I have the split the options into multiple comments.
Oh um. I mean like each comment is completely independent. That way when people vote the top level comments are ordered appropriately
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Carbon Maps
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!
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).
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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Origami Maps
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]
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.
battista is long and would often be spelled wrong. Piri and Orbis are fine, but Orbis sounds better and starts with an O XD
Note that there is a university library software called orbis, but well you cant avoid that
Orbis makes me think of something sciency like the earth is in orbit or an orb. I like that
Males me think of Jacques Cartier whose surname sounds like Cartes (French for map).
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Maybe Green Map with an even greater focus on the durability of the app?
@CubeOfCheese WayNow
"There is freedom within, there is freedom without"
"Don’t dream it’s over"
Seems appropriate for an Organic Maps fork 😄
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.
Periq(uito)Maps
Delta Maps (like the fork in the river)
It's not bad, but
- There might be too many projects named "Delta ___". (...I'm guessing. I can really only think of Delta Chat.)
- Is being a fork the only identity of this project? I would rather the name reflect other characteristics... 🤔
LibreMaps
Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.
There's MapLibre - a fork of Mapbox before it went full commercial
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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Fluid Maps
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