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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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by CubeOfCheese@sopuli.xyz to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz

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Please comment with your name ideas.

One name per comment.

Top level comments should just be the name. You can put reasons and discuss each idea in the comments below each suggestion.

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[–] metehan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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]

[–] metehan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Orbis makes me think of something sciency like the earth is in orbit or an orb. I like that

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Males me think of Jacques Cartier whose surname sounds like Cartes (French for map).

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the French word for cartographer?

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Same as English essentially, cartographe.