Making map generator proprietary won't help to solve "freeloaders hogging onto their map CDN" issue.
In fact, it actually forces potential forks to use their CDN because they can't setup their own map generation (as its closed source).
The OM's map generator was made proprietary in order to hinder the right to fork and enforce vendor lock-in. Later, a proprietary "Data License" had been introduced for binary files (incl. maps) with the same goal - effectively one can't build/fork OM without these files anymore.
Hi Alex! Talking about yourself in third person again? Sorry I haven't made enough new features for you lately, I've been a little busy. I'll do better for you, I promise. I wish that our attempts to formally communicate and resolve concerns weren't considered "pathetic" but c'est la vie.
Note that being Estonian OÜ (LLC) brings convenience of both having fully electronic communication towards any state affairs and also super easy to get (no even registration needed) yearly financial reports. Actually more-less the only touchpoint with state is the yearly report, no taxes until you have salaries, apply for VAT, deal with licensed area or really cash out the profits. Also you can be foreign, "e-resident" to use such OÜ.
The official company reporting source is https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/16225385/Organic-Maps... .
Yearly PDF reports are in Estonian language, but your favorite AI should help. The numbers are in actual EUR (not housands), so they seem to have 33KEUR profits, IMHO no huge piles of money to worry too much for.
CoMaps cherry-picks changes from Organic Maps regularly.
OM is also free to pick from CoMaps, but so far they haven't been doing so.
And yes, amount of work done on OM has reduced significantly, as many contribturos have moved to CoMaps.
Still, features-wise priorities of both projects are quite similar. E.g. being easy to use and simple , offline-focused, etc.
I would say CoMaps is a bit more serious about privacy and is also more open to customization by users (to a reasonable extent).
As CoMaps is a community-driven project then it's possible that with time the growing community would change the direction of the project somewhat.
But the biggest differences that actually were the reason for forking - are in the way the project is run - CoMaps is truly community-driven, open and transparent, which includes project's finances and decision-making.
I'll just quote Oleg, who was an Organic Maps contributor working on the new website (amongst other things) and is in the CoMaps team now:
"The original design was created by me. I also personally hired and paid for a designer to also work on the design. Later I hired a developer and paid him myself to develop the website. Recently minor updates were made, for example removing the stock photos from the Community page, which was paid by OM. This was from the beginning through today open source under the Apache license."
