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I see it's another fork of maps.me, I hope it will gain traction. Are there any relation between maps.me and mapy.cz (they look too similar other than using OSM

by hawski 5y ago

I see it's another fork of maps.me, I hope it will gain traction. Are there any relation between maps.me and mapy.cz (they look too similar other than using OSM)? I use the latter for quite some time since the maps.me fork that was on F-Droid stopped updating. I love mapy.cz and I would like to give them money so they would not share the same fate. I also like that mapy.cz is from my southern neighbors. Maps in all of the above are pleasing for the eye and very informative, being offline-capable is an icing on the top, but it is a requirement when hiking. I love to explore areas with them. I start to have an itch to map a few paths in my neighborhood in OSM.

lggy 5y ago
AFAIK, mapy.cz and maps.me aren't related and the international version of mapy.cz is called Windy Maps [1]. [1] https://play.google.com/?id=cz.seznam.windymaps&gl=US https://play.google.com/?id=cz.seznam.windymaps&gl=US
- Tijdreiziger 5y ago
  That link doesn't seem to work for me, I guess you meant this one? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.windymaps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... It says in the description that it's 'Windy Maps by Seznam.cz' (which appears to be some kind of news site?), but the developer is listed as 'Windyty SE', and the developer website is listed as https://www.windy.com/ https://www.windy.com/, which appears to be a weather map. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
  - lggy 5y ago
    Sorry, I guess I must have gotten redirected when logged in or something like that. It is indeed the app you are linking to and the developer of both mapy.cz and windy maps is indeed Seznam.cz, which is the "Czech Google" as much as Yandex is for Russians for example. They are the #1 Czech news/email/search/maps/... provider and have been since the nineties. Windy.com is an interactive weather map company, but also founded and owned by the same owner as Senznam.cz, and I guess they tried to combine the English rebrand of the maps with the ability to show interactive weather, which is indeed a bit odd.
    - will-bradley 5y ago
      I'm okay with it, because as an American I'm inherently distrustful of eastern European TLDs like cz ru etc but Windy is a truly amazing weather website so it inspires confidence (and having a mobile version has been needed for awhile imo)

by hawski 5y ago

lggy 5y ago

AFAIK, mapy.cz and maps.me aren't related and the international version of mapy.cz is called Windy Maps [1]. [1] https://play.google.com/?id=cz.seznam.windymaps&gl=US https://play.google.com/?id=cz.seznam.windymaps&gl=US

Tijdreiziger 5y ago
That link doesn't seem to work for me, I guess you meant this one? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.windymaps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... It says in the description that it's 'Windy Maps by Seznam.cz' (which appears to be some kind of news site?), but the developer is listed as 'Windyty SE', and the developer website is listed as https://www.windy.com/ https://www.windy.com/, which appears to be a weather map. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
- lggy 5y ago
  Sorry, I guess I must have gotten redirected when logged in or something like that. It is indeed the app you are linking to and the developer of both mapy.cz and windy maps is indeed Seznam.cz, which is the "Czech Google" as much as Yandex is for Russians for example. They are the #1 Czech news/email/search/maps/... provider and have been since the nineties. Windy.com is an interactive weather map company, but also founded and owned by the same owner as Senznam.cz, and I guess they tried to combine the English rebrand of the maps with the ability to show interactive weather, which is indeed a bit odd.
  - will-bradley 5y ago
    I'm okay with it, because as an American I'm inherently distrustful of eastern European TLDs like cz ru etc but Windy is a truly amazing weather website so it inspires confidence (and having a mobile version has been needed for awhile imo)