Due to "anti-features" introduced unilaterally by some people from FDroid community, it is not possible to find Organic Maps using the search in FDroid client without tinkering with its settings first: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3347
By default, it is possible to find apps with ads, with tracking, with non-free network services, dependencies and assets, apps without source code and with known vulnerabilities. But it is not possible to find Organic Maps, an open-source app without ads and tracking.
@organicmaps yes, our communication about this change was not ideal.
We tried to cover it in https://f-droid.org/2024/07/25/twif.html and https://f-droid.org/2024/04/04/twif.html, but apparently it wasn't read by everybody (surprise, surprise
Unfortunately, we didn't find any good technical solution to enable the new Anti-Feature automatically (but only for those, who didn't change their AFs manually).
Moreover, this new AF was designed to clearly differentiate, that apps like OM are NOT NonFreeNet, but only TetheredNet.
@piggo @fdroidorg @organicmaps @PhotonQyv@strangeobject.space Its not an anti-feature to you because your in a place of relative comfort, but the inability of someone being able to host their own map data and have the app download from that could be important to, say, people in conflict zones without persistant internet.
@Baggypants @piggo @fdroidorg @PhotonQyv
In your example, if someone needs to generate maps locally and distribute them without the internet, then making a local build of OM with custom URLs and a specific version of map data bound to it is way better and more reliable solution.
@organicmaps @fdroidorg
"It's open source, you can fork it" is a great freedom and shouldn't be overlooked, I am thankful for it. But ultimately it is irrelevent to this discussion which is "How should the app be categorized as the developers intended it to be distributed"