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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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Love CoMaps. But until there's a efficient streaming option to skip asking the user to download maps, it's going to be hard to offer as an alternative to Google Maps.
That's going to be extremely expensive for them to host a server (probably multiple all over the world), isn't it? Streaming images would probably not be as bad as video but still quite a lot of bandwidth / CPU usage, no?
(Personally I don't understand why you'd want to do that instead of downloading for offline use but I know I'm weird with not having mobile data anyway, so ...)
I don't "want to do that" but I tried to make the point that many users heavily rely on that. I can work with offline maps, but I'm not above admitting it's a tad more work that, for most, is a real deal breaker